Top 1200 Maximum Effort Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.

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

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

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

Its cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

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

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

Parisians have this ability to be cool and chic without appearing to have made an effort.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

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

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

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

Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don't feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.

Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing. It is impossible to build up the country in a state of permanent warfare. But peace for us is a mean, and not an end. The end is the fulfillment of Zionism in its maximum scope. Only for this reason do we need peace, and do we need an agreement.

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

My beard is just an ongoing effort to hide my face as much as possible.

We need to make every effort to ensure Obamacare is never implemented.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

It is for me to realise my value and put in the effort to win big tournaments.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

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

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

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

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

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

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Listening to the people I serve is a critical component of any legislative effort.