Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Egan

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jean Vanier

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Harper Lee

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

Ignatius of Loyola

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Ian Bogost

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Hugh Prather

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Hugh Dancy

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Howard Gordon

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Hannah Arendt

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Guy Finley

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

Gerhard Richter

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Harville Hendrix

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...

Jeane Kirkpatrick

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Gloria Feldt

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

George Henry Lewes

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Haile Selassie

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Greg Peterson

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Ice T

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

He ran great today; it was a great effort by him. In that last game when he ran over that guy on third-and-short to get the first down, you could see the 'eye' he had in the huddle after that. You could tell he felt good about it.

Ken Macha

Great effort tonight by Halsey. He pitched his game and we had some big hits.

For the last two-and-a-half years we have made every effort to provide 24/7 service, but we have leaned that we are not as young as we used to be and the lack of sleep is much more important than it used to be.

For the most part, we've played pretty well. We've been in most every game. Tonight, for some reason, the effort was not there and it showed.

Tom Ridge

For the first time ever, this international effort will establish one world standard for ship and port security,

Iris Murdoch

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

Iyanla Vanzant

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

If I am not drafted, I would have to sit down and think whether I want to put in the extra effort to make it on the pro soccer level or go the alternative route and get a normal job.

If he doesn't see all the effort he wants, we'll stop practice at any time and do up-downs. In one of our last practices, we weren't going hard enough. So we ended up doing up-downs for the rest of practice, which was good because it was what we needed to do.

Greg Kinnear

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.