During the 1980s, when Japan’s economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like ‘Japan is Number One,’ most Japanese college students didn’t make the effort to become fluent in English. – Rebecca MacKinnon
I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time. – Robert Kiyosaki
Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. – Raghav Bahl
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. – Robert Quillen
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain. – Russell Means
I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes. – Rachel McAdams
The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, ‘Okay, I’ve got to put it on my Facebook, I’ve got to put it on my website, what’s the view count now? What’s the view count now? What’s the view count now?’ You get obsessive with it. – Rachel Bloom
Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential. – Pallam Raju
I love working with new directors. There’s so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it’s a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director. – Pauley Perrette
The events of the day’s march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. – Robert Falcon Scott
Let’s stand up. Let’s speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. – Rick Perry
The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty. – Robert Zubrin
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. – Robert Mueller
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way. – Orison Swett Marden
If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism. – Orison Swett Marden
I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it’s worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation. – Robert Jordan
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. – Robert Dallek
The so-called second New Deal of 1935 – including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor – represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity. – Robert Dallek
Remember, what does ‘retirement’ mean? It doesn’t mean that you’re a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you’re bicycling five miles a day, that’s leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort. – Robert Fogel
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. – Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. – Roger Wicker
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. – Robert Taft
I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. – Richard P. Feynman
Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them. – Orison Swett Marden
I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn’t on a location all over the world doing movies. – Rob Lowe
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. – Paul Berg
If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer. – Rodney Frelinghuysen