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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

~Denis Waitley

Topics: Almost Another Approach Dependent Drive Effort Energy Extra Make Persistence Required Secret Success Success Is The Secret Of Totally Try Winning

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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

~Denis Waitley

Topics: Achieve Apply Direct Effort Proportion Results Will You

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If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

~Denzel Washington

Topics: About Am Best Cup Effort Goes Interested Maker Making People Possibly Think I Am

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If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Contribute Effort Harvard Invest Necessary Prepared Quality Time

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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Amnesia Bamboo Biography Effort Every Fog Frames Gods Imagination Island Labour Memory Mind Phrase Pieces Racial Rainbows Rebuilding Sudden Sunlight Through

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You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

~Diana Nyad

Topics: About Ball Bringing Effort Element Every Feet First First Place Get Hold Just Match Might Move Out Place Plate Pull Really Say Simply Someone Tell Tennis Then Together Up Watch Whatever Wimbledon Win Winning You Your Zen

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It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Bin Bravery Broader Business Cast Counterterrorism Courage Done Effort Finally Get Gotta Intelligence Involved Just Men Men And Women Military Net Owe Performed Special Than Think Those Tribute Very Well Who Women I Think

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I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Businesses Create Did Early Effort Encouragement Essential Expand Incentives Invest Jobs Kind More Need People Policy Primarily Provide Reagan Save Serious Tax Thing Think Through Very Years Years Ago I Think

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You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Avoid Death Effort Filibuster Know Purpose Reconciliation Something Talk You

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I think we learned a lesson and paid a bitter price when we put troops on the ground on a long-term basis in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let us support a homegrown, indigenous, and locally inspired effort to bring stability to the region.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Afghanistan Basis Bitter Bring Effort Ground Indigenous Inspired Iraq Learned Lesson Let Us Locally Long-Term Paid Price Put Region Stability Support Think Troops Us I Think

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