Effort Quotes

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

Less effort in this game makes more results.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

You're a terrible cook, Daniel." "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts." "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

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.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

Prayer is an effort of will.

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

You can't rely just on talent to win.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.