Effort Quotes

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

~ Andrew Young

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

~ Elliot Richardson

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

~ Sarah Churchwell

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

~ Marcia Muller

Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

~ Harvey Mason

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

~ Anna C. Brackett

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

~ Eckhart Tolle