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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
This quote had been associated with David Dunham, who has stated that he is not the originator.
-Anon.
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If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
-Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired.
-Proverb
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Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
-Proverb
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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
-Hank Aaron
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
-Hannah Arendt
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
-Richard Bach
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
-Francis Bacon
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
-Lucille Ball
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I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.
-Jesse Barfield
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Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
-Johnny Bench
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
-Arnold Bennett
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Easy DOESN'T do it.
-Al Bernstein
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You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
-Yogi Berra
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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11
-Bible
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
-Larry Bird
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I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
-Barry Bonds
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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
-Claude M. Bristol
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
-Robert Browning
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
-Buddha
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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Liane Cardes
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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World records are only borrowed.
-Sebastian Coe
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Books about Effort
