Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Remy De Gourmont

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

Hirohito

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Vince Lombardi

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Emma Goldman

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

We don't have to have a $5 million building up there. With little effort we can make small improvements at no cost to the community that will benefit everyone.

Scott Murray

We sold more T-shirts than anything else. There was not much design effort.

Malcolm Harris

I'm real proud of my kids for their effort.

Noel Klippenstein

It's a worthy effort, but misplaced in that particular location.

Robert Weinberg

This wasn't one of our better efforts and you can't afford to come out with less than your best effort against a team like H-F.

Mike Angel

There is an effort to reduce the Medicaid cuts to the beneficiaries.

Carl Schmid

It was just a great team effort, ... Every guy was fighting to the death.

Mark Manning

I'm happy for the kids. They put a lot of effort into this. We had to work hard for this championship.

Mark Mugiishi

It was a good effort. We played well and rebounded. We did what we needed to do.

Albert Jacquez

It's an effort to stretch those federal dollars as far as we can.

Kathy Mitchell

We're glad to be a part of the RTIP's effort for this critical endeavor.

Michael Weiss

They just don't want to be bothered. Even a little effort on their part is considered too much.

Matt Peterson

He was extremely consistent. He was dialed in and giving it a great effort.

Dick Booth

It was a great team effort. I was able to get a couple of baskets to fall, but we worked great as a team.

Spencer Nelson

Our kids guarded well. Our defensive effort was the best we've had all season.

Jeff Guiot

We've been trying to get a great effort. I think this was our best effort game since I've been here.

Ron Jirsa

He's just happy to be here with us and happy to be able to breathe without any effort and get up and so forth.

Robert Dowling

That's not boxing out and (lack of) effort.

Reggie Bellamy

We made a concentrated effort to improve our effort on the boards.

Quinton Dale

We had a really great team effort, we made great decisions, and we played great team defense.

Shane Wichers

The effort was there. The attention to detail was there all week. . . . We were never able to get into a rhythm.

Blair Albright

I think both contractors are making every effort to comply with what is being asked of them.

Don Madden

We gave everything we had. I can't be more proud of the effort we gave.

Hilary Witt

What they do such a good job of is coaching effort.

Charlie Jones

It probably wasn't the prettiest game you'll see but at least we gave the effort.

Jalen Rose

I would like to have the help of people in this room in this effort.

Rick Boucher

He's putting out this huge physical effort on this 100-degree day.

Tom Mcewen

It's not for anyone who is faint of heart. It's a monumental effort to keep these animals.

Tippi Hedren

Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

Alfred E. Neuman

There wasn't one thing, but a collective effort. When one guy breaks down on offense, the entire play is shot.

Stephen Alexander

But we really focus on what we can control -- namely, our effort and improving each day.

Joe Wortmann

We are hoping that the public will bear with us and make their effort to bring the proper ID.

Karen Osborne

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

It wasn't the effort I wanted to see. I hesitate to be negative because we won.

Matt Strophy

I was pleased with our effort. We didn't win, but we battled back, and that kind of battle is what I'm looking for.

Ken Hawkins

They just happened to get one more run than we did. I was happy with the effort.

Shawn Rychcik

It was a joint effort by family and lawyers.

Lisa Lammi

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

We will be very much a partner in the effort.

Cathy Pavlic

There is an intense effort underway to fix this problem.

Paul Hughes

I thought the kids off the bench did a good job and boosted us. I was very happy with their effort.

Jerry Aanonsen

The effort is progressing quite well.

David Passey

It's not necessarily a dot.com play, but seems like an effort to get into publishing.

Ken Cassar

Some of these cars can't physically drive far in the effort to make them a sound chamber.

John Whitacre

I really like the effort of the women. The times were a little off, but his course did not appear to be a fast one.

Karol Hunt

For us it really is a total team effort.

Nate Newman

Dulles did eventually take off in the 1980s, but it took a lot of effort and a lot of time to develop it.

Bob Hazel

It's the only one there is. They put a lot of effort into it. We haven't had anybody who really wanted to put in that effort.

Lorrie Baker

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

It's very difficult. I think it needs to start with us and the way we approach these communities. We have to make more effort to integrate them.

Peter Newman

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

The effort wasn't bad. But it's going to have to be a lot better next weekend.

Jon Garvin

They've been a tremendous help to us in this effort.

Brendan Ferry

I couldn't have been more pleased with the way he started, it was a terrific effort.

Denis Pagan

It was kind of a team effort. This one just got legs.

Aidan Quinn

It is definitely an ensemble effort with a lot of laughs.

Dana Reed

The committee can see that as a weekly effort.

Jim Mowen

And it's certainly not for the lack of effort on the part of researchers.

Alan Berube

The kids I think were happy with their effort.

Ron Menegon

He's battling . . . he's fighting every day. There's no effort to camouflage or hide anything.

James Whigham

We swung the bats really well today. It was a good team effort.

Dave Legg

I'm very pleased with Zack's effort. Making all-conference is a great accomplishment.

Craig Hillier

Dale is outstanding with the basketball and he is so much a better finisher and that really helps us. We had a great team effort all around.

Brent Deckert

Our best effort will be there. We're looking forward to it.

Pat Morelli

If one guy gives an effort like that, you'd like to see someone, including me, do something for him.

Gerald Williams

It was a great team effort after the first inning.

Steve Carroll

We started small and have grown through this tremendous effort.

Peter Horvath

It wasn't easy. It was a courageous effort by both teams and we feel absolutely blessed to come out of here with a victory tonight.

Scott Carlson

We got the effort we wanted tonight.

Junior Lessard

I thought it was their best effort of the year. They were playing very well.

Nancy Dixon

Right now I wouldn't want to be on anything else after that effort.

Nick Ryan

It's certainly nice knowing we can put C.J. out there and we'll get a strong defensive effort from him every time.

Ron Faust

It's time, money and effort. For what?

Mike Patton

It was a great defensive effort. It took us a while to adjust to their speed.

Joe Gill

This is like a Super Bowl coming to your city. Certainly, it takes a lot of time and effort to do it.

Aaron Mclear

We are not playing with the same intensity and effort that we were earlier in the season. We could see this coming.

Bart Lundy

It's been a team effort. Guys have been stepping up all year.

Bob Wickman

It's a lot of time and effort - what can I tell you?

Paul Sorvino

I was very disappointed with our effort today, and if we would have done better we could have won a meet for a second week in a row.

John Gartland

China has been a blessing, we have spent proportionate effort and have received proportionate results.

Billy Chiu

It's wonderful. You can't explain it. We put so much effort into this. It's phenomenal. It's a dream come true.

James Hudson

It really is a team effort.

Henry Robinson

I couldn't be prouder of the effort.

Robert Mccullum

The plaintiff's case is disappearing, and this is a desperate effort to stop the fall.

David Bernick

We are not quite there yet. We still have a lot of work to do. You can always use a little more practice and have a little more effort. We will get there. We are almost there.

Courtney Davis

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Pat Riley

We had good balance. It was a good team effort.

Tom Armstrong

That was just an effort run. They just gave a greater effort than we did.

Mike Burns

It was a collective team effort tonight, and our kids did the little things right to win this one.

Jeff Larson

I was with the first dental team that was in the city morgue. It's a large team effort.

David Grossman

The reason I chose him is he makes an effort to go after a more innovative artist.

Gene Kronberg

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

Betty Cuthbert

She makes a very concerted effort to be accessible to the public.

Richard Hudson

I was pleased with the effort. We made some early season mistakes.

Dennis Pendrak

There was no robust auction that I could see. It's been a bizarre process . . . For all the effort and bravado, it's amusing.

Greg Eckel

They were combined into one task force to prevent duplication of effort.

Steve Baldwin

It was a solid defensive effort against a real storied program from the Bay Area.

Steve Kellar

When they beat us earlier in the year by 11, they controlled the boards. We made a conscious effort to get bodies on people.

Travis Miller

Their effort all season got us here. They are all very close.

Christine Labombard

It's the largest and best Badger State effort in anyone's memory.

Tom Still

That was such an amazing effort. They had to put out their own money to get them there, ... kindertransports.

Sharon Nichols

It requires a lot of work, but we have a lot of enthusiastic people behind the effort.

Charlie Rose

There were five funding sources for one project. It was really a collaborative effort.

Roger Patterson

Defensively, it was a total team effort.

Tom Armstrong

It's the greatest and biggest aid effort in the world -- a scale never tried before.

Michael Elmquist

It was a lack of focus, a lack of effort on our part. And they exploited that.

Pat Garrity

The best effort of all.

Rick Welch

I can't fault our effort. Cardington is a good solid team.

Nick Kajca

The guys off the bench really gave us the effort we have been looking for.

Al Gooden

His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.

Henry James

I was proud of our effort to make it this far. This was a very difficult golf course.

Brian Davis

I'm happy with the effort they gave. We learned and that's what we came out to do.

Mark Murphy

It's disappointing. It's up to us. We've got to go out there and bring the effort. That's the least we can do.

Peja Stojakovic

I am very excited about our first birthday. It's a celebration of the combined community effort to bring the YMCA to Bonita Springs.

Debbie Metzger

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

We were doing it in a good faith effort to arrive at a compromise.

Rep. Scott Suder

We gave a good effort and we're working on getting better.

Bob Erickson

We see this as a continual process in an effort to focus on bringing our customers what they want.

Carolyn Walton

It's kind of an all-hands-on-deck call. A lot of them have called in every employee to help assist in the clean-up effort.

Scott Creel

We've got some rogue rescuers working out there who are not part of the coordinated effort.

Larry Hawkins

We will continue with our constructive effort, and we are ready to talk further.

Nebojsa Vujovic

I'm very disappointed with our defensive effort tonight and we will definitely be working on that (Wednesday) in practice I assure you.

Debra Pegram

I made an effort the last few days to get people out to vote.

Brian Bauer

I think the voters in the district wanted change, and they supported my effort to bring change to the board.

Adam Warpinski

This effort will be an important addition ? to encourage the education of fund directors.

Arthur Levitt

So it really is a synthetic effort to understand our common past.

Dr Spencer Wells

It is the largest, most consistent, all-community, life-saving effort in our Valley currently.

Dean Eller

It was David's decision to leave. There was no effort to force him out of the office at all. He was very good at what he did.

Michael Drewniak

Even though the IU has made a concerted effort - and we appreciate that - the savings will not be anywhere near as much.

Thomas Finlan

Overall, it was a great team effort. We're very proud of them.

Bill Duffy

I was really pleased with our defensive effort, and we also rebounded well offensively and defensively.

Chris Strathman

This is very much a community effort.

John Yap

We were hitting on 11 cylinders. They got after it tonight. We got a little better. What a great effort by Molen.

Ron Lebsock

Our goal was to be the best we could be. We have some outstanding individuals, (but) this was a team effort.

Kevin Corbett

We will try to see if there are grounds for continuing this effort.

Gadi Baltiansky

There has never been that kind of effort, to standardize activities and rules.

Joe Donovan

It is vital that we put every effort in and try to produce a good run of form.

Martin Jones

Highly provocative and makes effort to restore calm much more difficult.

Charles Hunter

The biggest thing is we're not making a conscious effort to protect the ball.

Bobby Humphries

Adult basic training and education is one of the cornerstones of our social investment effort, not only for our own people, but also for people in the community.

Con Fauconnier

The Global Fund will make every effort to avoid any adverse effect.

Jon Liden

The kids played well. They had a lot of effort and executed well. I'm very pleased with how we played.

Brad Blew

I think it was our best all-around team effort. Everyone got after it defensively. Everyone was shooting well.

Ryan Appleby

It was a great team effort. It was a good win.

Terry Kukesh

Every election there is always an effort to get more people to vote.

Mayor Michael O'reilly

It was a collective effort. No one was being selfish and everyone contributed in some way.

Sarah Larsen

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

We were expecting their best effort.

Scott Bergland

It wasn't (Barrett's) best effort on that night. I would never say that we were naïve that the players weren't blameless.

Les Renner

Our effort was much, much better tonight. When you're down 4-2, a 4-4 tie feels like a win.

Jamie Russell

I am proud of the girls. This was a total-team effort.

Paul Grant

This was a Herculean effort, one the world will never forget.

Rear Admiral Michael Lefever

The effort to arrest Mladic has never been more serious. All state authorities are determined to solve the Mladic case.

Rasim Ljajic

It was a big effort coming back from 1400m to 1200m. Only the very best can do that.

Michael Hibbs

It was a good effort by everyone. We wanted to get on top early and then make sure they had no chance to come back.

Lenny Jefferson

We didn't have one person you could focus on. It was a team effort.

Kerry Janquart

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Bruce Krall

We implore you to understand this effort.

Ruben Escudero

I am confident Jim will be a major contributor to our effort to strengthen the team. We are certainly happy to have him on board.

Peter Angelos

It's a great community effort. Everybody is connected.

Larry Albert

This was not the first effort made to engage in this fun.

William Costopoulos

This class has made a special effort in the scholarship area.

Brian Doherty

The score was not indicative of our effort.

Brian Holsinger

Defensively, we came out and played with a lot of energy and effort. We pressured the ball a lot and that led to easy scores.

Ray Funk

It's all about the players, they get all the credit. That's what we needed, total effort and we got that tonight.

John Torchetti

It was a team effort. Without my team, I couldn't achieve anything.

José José Delgado

Much effort has been put into promoting the benefits of online filing and that has paid off.

David Varney

Defensively we are hoping to get the same kind of effort we have been getting all year.

Roger Walters

In this effort, there will be no backtracking.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

My feeling is we are doing something new here. We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way that's acceptable to the creators. That is novel.

David Mandelbrot

We're willing to discuss the possibilities of a joint effort when the city is ready to discuss it.

Frank Dunn

We continue to talk to him in an effort to try to appease some of his concerns.

Ben Cherington

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

Robert Cohen

These efforts deserve applause and support. They have required much effort and commitment and represent a desirable 'New Auburn'.

James Fisher

Why not put the effort forth; why not give back to your community?

Mike Johnson

We just didn't have a very good defensive effort.

Lea Herndon

I'm not sure how much sincere effort the administration is putting into the capital plan.

Patty Schuh

Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff.

Anne Roman

The effort to reduce the deficit has an impact on all discretionary programs.

John Marburger

It wasn't as strong as the effort was here, so that's why I'm here.

Derrick Blaylock

The city has made an exhaustive effort to complete the oral histories.

Janel Patterson

This was really the last ditch effort for me on this.

Vicki Jenkins

Our effort just wasn't there in the first half.

Bryant Mcallister

In fact, the company is dramatically increasing its chips output in the effort to meet all its customers' demand.

Christos Lagomichos

The key to us winning is a total team effort. And we got one tonight.

Geoff Hogan

It was a group effort. There's three of us.

Stacey Houtary

It was a good effort by everybody, the bench players stepped up.

Lenny Jefferson