A Quote by Garrett McNamara

When you put a lot into something, the triumphs are so overwhelming with joy.

Garrett McNamara

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Garrett McNamara

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Oprah Winfrey

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

Steve Young

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Laurie Anderson

I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.

Eddie Vedder

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Andres Serrano

You put a lot of work into something, a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices, and the time you put in, you want the same result from it.

Mohamed Sanu

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Lytton Strachey

If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.

Ed O'Brien

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

John Piper

But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

Ben Affleck

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

Ty Burrell

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.