It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
If you can start with effort then you have a chance.
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.
When we listen, it's not linear, it's 360, and it's in a time-space continuum, so you don't have to create a list of priorities, because it's all important. You can deal with everything at any given time. Not only that, but it happens very simply, without effort.
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice. . . No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult. . . the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.
Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort
I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
