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The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
Gretchen Rubin
Examine
More
Weight
Put
Because
Does
Issue
Effort
Clutter
Really
Act
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
Gretchen Rubin
Great
Humanity
Leader
Country
Past
Too
Heroic
Danger
Churchill
Gigantic
Feared
Seemed
Magnanimous
More
Winston
Winston Churchill
He
Like
Qualities
Him
Limitless
Traditional
His
Than
Effort
Did
Brave
Energies
Ordinary
Apart
Britain
Set
'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.
Gretchen Rubin
Beautiful
Food
News
Sports
Natural
Gossip
Political
Crime
Clothes
Natural Disasters
Photographs
Absorb
True
Disasters
Massive
Houses
Quantities
Repetitive
Celebrity
Effort
Endless
Little
Requires
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
Grimes
Music
You
Learning
Natural
Once
About
Obscure
Pursuit
Put
Learning Curve
Very
Effort
Human
Human Beings
Curve
Natural Thing
Beings
Fast
Thing
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
Style
Atrocious
Only
Stubbornness
Devoted
Effort
Fanatical
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Money
Try
Social Media
Unless
Spend
About
More
Than
Effort
Expense
Social
Really
Media
It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
H. R. McMaster
Army
Our
Embarked
Russia
Studied
Clear
Vulnerabilities
Iraq
Ambitious
Effort
Afghanistan
While
Capabilities
Modernization
Successful
Engaged
Largely
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
H. R. McMaster
Three
Deficient
Soldiers
Moral
Components
Percentage
Could
Main
Countries
Name
Taliban
Been
Western
Effort
May
Afghanistan
Engaged
Inherent
Strategies
Even
Groups
Whom
Recent
I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
Halsey
Perception
Think
Bother
Had
Attention
Weirdo
Liked
Also
Make
Effort
Different
Wanted
Actually
Needed
Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.
Halston Sage
Day
You
Heart
Other
Spend
Someone
Putting
Like
Hours
Accelerate
Making
Version
Up
Effort
Same
Movie
Your
Many
Each
Growing
Growing Up
My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Hans Frank
War
Justice
Aim
Our
Safeguard
Without
Doing
Effort
War Effort
Harm
I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.
Harold Ramis
Best
People
Inspire
Whatever
Guide
Talented
Talented People
Gently
Effort
Contribute
Really
Working
Suggest
If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
Harry Kroto
Best
You
Will
Second-Rate
Else
Find
Something
Something Else
Only
Doing
Effort
Where
Personally
Your
Satisfies
Satisfy
Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
Harvey Keitel
Old
Out
Financing
Had
Know
Fell
Well
Making
Am
Least
Doing
Effort
Get
Done
Story
Whether
Place
Old Story
Moment
Film
Actually
I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
Helena Bonham Carter
Work
Me
You
Grateful
People
Words
Be Nice
Trouble
Few
Nice
Enjoy
Seconds
Those
Kind
Kind Words
About
Only
Small
Taken
Come
Talk
Involves
Am
Up
Very
Effort
Person
Your
Express
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Henry A. Wallace
Democracy
Sacrifice
Possibility
Would
Some
Rival
Up
Itself
Effort
Any
Growing
Growing Up
Eliminate
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry Adams
God
Man
Woman
Heart
Obey
Long
Every
Summoned
Hidden
Must
Find
Lies
Divinity
He
Calling
Up
Effort
After
Which
Succeeded
Who
Every Man
Last
Startled
I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.
Henry Cavill
Day
You
Speak
End Of The Day
Will
Long
Back
Way
All Day
Find
Takes
Accent
Talking
Because
Dialogue
Doing
End
Effort
American
American Accent
Shooting
Often
Fiancee
Just
Just Because
Used
Speaking
English
Bring
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Time
Me
Bible
Setting
Has-Been
Impart
Touch
Give
Only
Put
Reverence
Been
Subjects
Effort
Same
Human
Same Time
Public
Convey
Incident
Original
Elevation
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
Henry Reed
Morning
People
Writing
Mind
Whatever
Down
Lying
Dream
Both
Factor
Develop
Still
Effort
Skill
Skills
Recall
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
Henry Rollins
Work
Great
Song
Joy
Lost
Those
Someone
Recorded
Great Song
Hearing
Effort
Gets
Any
Whenever
Ether
Deprived
Created
Who
Album
Damaged
Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.
Henry Spencer
You
Fly
Build
Faster
Way
Right Way
Something
More
More Or Less
Could
Higher
Lighter
Like
Perhaps
Making
Lot
Effort
Get
Trying
Proceed
Spaceship
Really
Less
Works
Right
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
Henry Villard
Nature
Enthusiasm
Nothing
Human Nature
Touched
Higher
Excited
Powerful
Instincts
Audience
Always
Lincoln
His
End
Effort
Human
Sustained
While
Douglas
Appealed
Cords
Speech
Sympathetic
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo
War
Enemies
Made
Power
Nation
Fighting
Every
Adding
Additional
Our
Point
Opening
Obvious
Were
Effort
Fronts
While
View
Avoid
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.
Hisham Matar
Success
Failure
Language
Elsewhere
Adopt
Remain
Excites
Demanded
Over
New
Like
Also
Judged
Still
Leave
Go
Effort
Form
Whether
Again
Conversion
Means
Languages
Switching
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Start
Desire
When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.
Hod Lipson
You
Changes
Way
Costs
Advanced
Make
Parts
Robotic
Does
Effort
Same
Really
Manufacture
Manufacturing
Amount
Things
Profound
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