Top 1200 Individual Effort Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

With a little effort, she could get up by herself

The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

A lot of thought and effort goes into the outfits that I wear.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

It's a conscious effort for me to be aggressive and take what the defense gives you.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

In the effort to save America, we should never violate her.

When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

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

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

I love when I throw a party and people get into it and and make an effort.

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can do by myself that I would never be able to do with Group Material. First of all, they are a totally democratic entity and although you learn a lot from it, and it's very moving, it's very exacting, everything has to be by consensus, which is the beauty of it, but it is much more work. It's worth it 100%. But as an individual artist there are certain things that I want to bring out and express, and the collaborative practice is not conducive to that.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.