Effort Quotes
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of working with a better Russia.
I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.
Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.
The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.
The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.
Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort.
When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.
When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.
The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.
I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness
Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.
Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay.
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.
The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.
Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.