Quotes by Best Effort Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food. Alain de Botton best-effort taste book The one thing that matters is the effort. Antoine de Saint-Exupery best-effort motivational life I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience. Anton Chekhov best-effort police criticism I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life. Ashton Kutcher best-effort data government No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself. Baba Hari Dass best-effort important should Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it. Barack Obama best-effort our-world children Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource. Barbara Sher best-effort love mean My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function Bill Buxton best-effort design order The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal best-effort victory struggle 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 best-effort order lying Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh? Brandon Sanderson best-effort use people We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play? Bud Wilkinson best-effort real play In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student. Carol Ann Tomlinson best-effort impact fields Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose. Carol S. Dweck best-effort growth winning If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children. Charlotte Perkins Gilman best-effort sky children In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there. Che Guevara hygiene best-effort men In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows. Chuck Palahniuk chasing-rainbows best-effort couple But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. D. H. Lawrence best-effort soul men If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best. Dalai Lama best-effort done compassion The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. Daniel Dennett best-effort society caring 123456»