Effort Quotes - Page 71

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

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 it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

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

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.