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Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort. -- Jamais Cascio
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. -- Walt Disney
If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers. -- Maia Mitchell
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk. -- Anthony Lewis
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve. -- Lauren Tarshis
Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work. -- Tom Rath
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. -- Louis Dudek
Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy. -- Tom Vilsack
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality. -- Ban Ki-moon
I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. -- Boris Pasternak
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else. -- Emily Mortimer
I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort. -- Justin Timberlake
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me. -- Paulo Freire
The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation. -- Claire Messud
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. -- James Hillman
The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially. -- Pete Docter
Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home. -- Jordan Spieth
Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all. -- Haruki Murakami
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at. -- Don DeLillo
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you. -- Jack LaLanne
I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that." -- Charlize Theron
A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK. -- Sujit Lalwani

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