"When do any of us ever do enough?"
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"A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work."
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"People always ask me about my makeout scenes with him [Tyler Posey]. We joke around a lot and are like, ‘Oh, that was a sloppy one!’ But seriously, I don’t have to make an effort to have chemistry with him. He’s such a sweet guy and really loyal."
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"And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
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"I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference."
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"The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans."
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"Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
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"Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown."
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"Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it."
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"Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire."
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"The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost."
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"Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand."
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"Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true."
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"Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow."
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"So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration."
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"...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest."
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"The Tao is near and people seek it far away."
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"Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting."
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"I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe."
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