The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. – Kenneth Tynan
You can’t kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications. – James G. Stavridis
I went to go see ‘Final Destination’ which you have to be 17 and over to see and they’re like ‘Uh, we need to see your I.D.’ Here’s the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don’t do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older. – Kay Panabaker
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me – any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. – Joseph Murray
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort. – Jessica Savitch
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. – Lewis H. Lapham
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It’s important to see the film as a film. – Kazuo Ishiguro
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. – John Sergeant Wise
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment’s thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. – John Bright
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. – Ken Mehlman
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty. – Madeleine Albright
To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet. – Lawrence Bender
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. – Jim Walsh
Nelson McCormack on ‘Killing Kennedy’ was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort. – Kelly Masterson
My success is the team’s success. It’s one of those things to a certain degree that it’s effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform. – Jason Babin
I’m not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. – Mark Cuban
I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America’s WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all. – John Breaux
I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy. – Julius Genachowski
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant. – Lionel Barber
If we think we have ours and don’t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. – Marian Wright Edelman
The scale of the U.K. effort in post-conflict Iraq never matched the scale of the challenge. – John Chilcot
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. – Joan Chen
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are. – Joe Henderson
Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today. – Jerry Reinsdorf
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. – Morgan Freeman
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. – Leila Josefowicz
