Deliberate Effort Quotes

#1. Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

Rajneesh

#2. It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

Ann Brashares

#3. I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Jimmy Carter

#4. The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance": "The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

K. Anders Ericsson

#5. Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

Tony Hsieh

#6. The deliberate effort of memory for small detail is a social grace that will take a person far.

Carolyn Haines

#7. Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.... This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job

Andrea L'Artiste

#9. I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.

Andy Murray

#10. My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Auguste Rodin

#11. Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Marco Rubio

#12. Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.

Daniel Kahneman

#13. Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.

Andrew Lang

#14. Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence ... all directed at specific goals.

Gary Ryan

#15. Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Christopher Bram

#16. It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators come first, in importance as well as in history.

Richard Dawkins

#17. Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

K. Anders Ericsson

#18. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Alice Cooper

#19. The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Frank Ocean

#20. There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

Sandy Berger

#21. Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled.

J.K. Rowling

#22. We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.

Neil Postman

#23. It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

Sheila Walsh

#24. When you reach your highest goal, choose a new one.

Jay Van Andel