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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. -- Scott Hamilton
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. -- Robert Mueller
I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on. -- Victor Salva
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
That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. -- Kurt Busch
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. -- Noam Chomsky
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. -- Denis Waitley
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
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in. -- Alonzo Mourning
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. -- Noam Chomsky
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. -- Ben Bernanke
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. -- John Ruskin
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on. -- Ben Shahn
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't. -- James Salter
I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums. -- Gerry Beckley
I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. -- Meg Ryan
The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team. -- David Leslie
Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually. -- Kate Winslet
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. -- Mason Cooley
We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless. -- Alexander Isley
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. -- Helene Cixous
It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort. -- Steve Carell
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. -- Tim Hansel
My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. -- Adrian Belew
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others. -- George Robinson
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. -- David Levithan
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul. -- Jenny McCarthy
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. -- A.J. Ayer
Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard. -- Matt Damon
It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you. -- Luis Gerardo Mendez
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort -- Gene Kranz
You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough. -- Tony Gaskins
But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering. -- Alan Watts
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much. -- Darren Hardy
They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come. -- Rajon Rondo
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. -- Arnold Palmer
We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort. -- Piero Ferrucci
God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not. -- Rick Warren

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