Effort Quotes - Page 52

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.