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See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort. -- Dalai Lama
It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed. -- Rita Ora
People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language. -- Sam Altman
I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. -- Ice T
You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try. -- David Duval
Its cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values. -- David Archuleta
It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values. -- David Archuleta
Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort. -- Georgia Salpa
Our hearts are enfeebled by PROSPERITY so that we cannot make an effort to pray. -- John Calvin
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort. -- Tibor Fischer
Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort. -- Finn Jones
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. -- Emily Bronte
There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort. -- Dorothy Day
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. -- Antonio Gaudi
You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change. -- Kevin James
Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. -- Scott Hamilton
Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect. -- Scott Hamilton
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. -- A. A. Milne
The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be. -- James Van Praagh
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. -- Justin Timberlake
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. -- Henry David Thoreau
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics. -- Bat for Lashes
It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. -- Alexandra Roach
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy. -- Albert Camus
As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort. -- Sam Altman
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. -- Joan Chen
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. -- Benjamin Carson
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. -- Viggo Mortensen
Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language. -- Ashley Greene
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements. -- Gautama Buddha
I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200. -- Gemma Arterton
I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note. -- Dana Perino
If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay. -- Michael Cera
Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat. -- Abdellah Taia
You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore. -- Amos Lee
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. -- Gerhard Richter
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them. -- Maria Schell
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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
Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them. -- Jerry Spinelli
There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be. -- David Archuleta
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others. -- Josef Albers
Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth. -- Marianne Williamson
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It was our basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both. -- Tana French
Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career. -- Dan Shechtman
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. -- Anita Desai
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. -- Mortimer Adler
Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis. -- Abdallah II
I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week. -- Gail Simmons
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams. -- Margaret Mead
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. -- John F. Kerry
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty. -- Vanessa Carlton
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots. -- Juliette Lewis
The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort. -- Jack White
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. -- Jerry Garcia
At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back. -- Robert Crais
Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness! -- Israelmore Ayivor
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. -- Luke Evans
Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together. -- Suki Waterhouse
If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to. -- Colm Meaney
I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing. -- Peter Sis
Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me. -- Steven Tyler
If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action. -- Dalai Lama
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort. -- Felix Dennis
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether. -- Matthew Fox
Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform. -- Fernando Pessoa
Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. -- Jude Law
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. -- Joanna Lumley
That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort. -- Lauren Hutton
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions. -- Hans Haacke
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. -- Joanne Woodward
If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to make it right, then I pretty much will let that go. You don't forget about it, but just seeing that the guy makes an effort the next week means a lot. -- Tony Stewart
Make positive effort for the good. -- Dainin Katagiri
Ideas don't make money, effort does. -- Mike Michalowicz
Make the second effort your second nature. -- Harvey Mackay
To make a commencement requires a mental effort. -- Seneca the Younger
Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort. -- Tenzin Palmo
We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless. -- Alexander Isley
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Make a conscious effort to think, speak and act in affirmative manner. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. -- Arnold Palmer
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless. -- Norman Foster
[Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort. -- Gretl Braun
We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team. -- Paul Tagliabue
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort. -- Ai Weiwei
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. -- Helen Keller
Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort. -- Noah Weinberg
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. -- Dalai Lama
When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort -- John Stossel
I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project. -- Gregg Sulkin
It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort. -- Francesca Gregorini
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort. -- Ray Bradbury
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! -- Patricia Polacco
Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. -- Yoko Ono
The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins. -- Morgan Wootten
The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins. -- Morgan Wootten
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. -- William James
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues. -- Al Jarreau
If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed. -- Napoleon Hill
The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing. -- Jack Paar
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. -- Greg Kinnear
It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country. -- Hu Jintao
People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential. -- Paulo Coelho
If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal -- Paul Twitchell
Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy. -- Jessica Scorpio
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be. -- Timothy Keller
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. -- Robin Hobb
Al Gore completely lied about climate change in an effort to make a lot of money. -- Greg Gutfeld
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. -- Sigmund Freud
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste. -- Malcolm Forbes
You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action. -- Paul McCabe
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. -- Al Goldstein

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