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Making An Effort Quotes

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
- Dalai Lama

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter
- Suzanne Collins

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
- Ajay Devgan

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
- Thomas A Edison

Places change imperceptibly in detail, at least a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
- Harvey Keitel

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
- Fran Lebowitz

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
- Jude Law

His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.
- Arundhati Roy

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
- Tori Spelling

Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.
- Lionel Suggs

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