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A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.
You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.
After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn’t require much effort.
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.
What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.
What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
We've begin a nationwide effort to remove criminal aliens, gang members, drug dealers and others who pose a threat to public safety.