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Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. -- Andrew Weil
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it. -- Tyler Florence
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. -- Matthieu Ricard
I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education. -- Chris Matthews
I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. -- Hugh Dancy
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog. -- David Cronenberg
People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently. -- David Suzuki
There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness. -- Howard Cutler
I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport. -- Shawn Tompkins
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. -- Nora Roberts
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song. -- Adam Jones
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. -- Tom Hopkins
Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on. -- Victor Salva
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency. -- Ryan Seacrest
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. -- Vladimir Nabokov
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. -- Derek Bok
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas. -- John Gerzema
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. -- Timothy Noah
Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. -- J. K. Rowling
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks. -- George Pataki
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. -- Howard Aiken
When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well. -- LaMarr Woodley
I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time. -- Dean Karnazes
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. -- Otto Dix
Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy. -- Mason Cooley
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. -- Daniel Kahneman
Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness -- Diane Keaton
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). -- Idries Shah
Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort. -- Howard Gordon
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later. -- Mike Carey
Great time is for those who made effort. Better time is for those who made gain. -- Angelo Quiamco
I am not what you see.I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. -- Daniel Clowes
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. -- Tim Hansel
Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it. -- Raymond Carver
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. -- Denis Waitley
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening. -- Martha Stewart
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort -- Aristotle
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. -- David Levithan
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits. -- Richard Sherman
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. -- Swami Vivekananda
Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'. -- Lauren Graham
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. -- Elgin Baylor
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical. -- Brian Lawley
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough! -- T. B. Joshua
Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. -- Charles Duhigg
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God. -- Sheila Walsh
Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul. -- Jenny McCarthy
Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay. -- Drew Barrymore
Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
Future strong strives for simplicity for all:Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person. -- Bill Jensen
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort. -- Logan Lerman
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. -- Tony La Russa
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. -- Og Mandino
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort. -- Pooja Ruprell
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame -- Virginia Woolf
We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us. -- Christian Siriano
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one. -- Harrison Salisbury
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life. -- Emmet Fox
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much. -- Shelley Long
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. -- Ted Engstrom
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -- Elbert Hubbard
There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier. -- Peter Kinderman
In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort. -- Brenda Strong
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. -- Ted Engstrom
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions. -- James Dashner
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts. -- Seth Godin
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. -- Peter Lynch
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. -- Jim Rohn
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy. -- Max McKeown
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work. -- Theodore Kaczynski
The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time -- Ken Blackwell
At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke -- Aaron Allston
People stand in front of an officiant and say 'I do' but that shouldn't mean 'I'm done' when comes to putting time and effort to grow their relationship. -- Beth Ehemann
In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord. -- Francis Chan
The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives. -- Dave Barry
Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results. -- Tiger Woods
Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time. -- Bud Wilkinson
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. -- Anne Graham Lotz
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. -- Dan Millman
If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much. -- Nir Eyal
Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean. -- Alexa Chung
I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time. -- Don Yaeger

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