Effort Quotes - Page 45

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.

Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words, Mr. Martineau says, because the visual symbols are far more significant. They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.

It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

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.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

During the periods when South Korea played a more active role, the inter-Korean relationship was more peaceful, and there was less tension between the United States and North Korea. The last U.S. administration pursued a policy of strategic patience and did not make any effort to improve its relationship with North Korea. Also, the previous Korean government did not make any such efforts. The result is the reality you see today - North Korea continuing to advance its nuclear and missile program.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.