A Quote by Lester Levenson

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

Lester Levenson

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Lester Levenson
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July 19, 1909 - 1994

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort.

Alexa Chung

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kelli Williams

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Norman Foster

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Tenzin Palmo

To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.

Joachim Low

There have been those moments in my life - in all of our lives - where you think, "I could literally be dead at any moment." Once you go down the rabbit hole, you realize how precious life is and you realize you never realized before how precious life is.

Dominic Rains

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

Zak Bagans

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

Geneen Roth

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

Alexa Chung

When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things that you naturally assume to be opposite because they're presented that way most of the time, and the way she twines them together is so beautiful. To be able to do that is so powerful.

David Longstreth

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Joe Hyams

In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

Francis Chan

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Rebecca Romijn

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

Dee Dee Myers

To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

Friedrich August von Hayek

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