Quotes of: Group-effort Keyword

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

Jack Canfield

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Peter Brimelow

Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.

Tate Donovan

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Hedy Lamarr

'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

Rachel G. Fox

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Guillermo del Toro

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

Amy Klobuchar

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Azim Premji

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Emma Donoghue

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Norman Finkelstein

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

William Julius Wilson

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Jimmy Wales

I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

Seth Rogen

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once yo...

Eat, Pray, Love

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help. When...

An Atheist Manifesto

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Best friends are formed by t...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half of it is absolutely in your hands and your actions will show measurable consequences. Man is neither entirely a puppet of t...

Elizabeth Gilbert

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

Det syvende barn

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Death in a Tenured Position

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

I might go easy on people who make mistakes, but never on people who make no effort.

Flashes of Thought