#effort

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself. ↗

— Justin Long

#anything #avoid #concerted #concerted effort #effort

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#eventually #generally #having #hoop #i

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#essentially #i #language #make #me

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #canadians #discrimination #effort #encounter

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#bare #bring #callousness #condemnation #despised

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#be happy #decent #earn #education #effort

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#encourage #others #own #praise #their

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#building #community #efforts #european #european union

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#difficult #effort #essential #expanded #felt