Top 1200 Minimal Effort Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

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

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

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

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

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

All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.

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

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.

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

People think the effort is less in popular commercial cinema, but that's not true.

Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.

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

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

The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

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

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

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

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

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

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

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

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

Being the recent accessibility of rare vinyl and cassette music via blogs, as well as the digital backlash which is driving more people to crave the tangible - most of these minimal wave releases are hand-numbered vinyl editions, which adds another level to the listening experience. They can listen to an LP and it's there for them to look at, examine its cover art, and hold whilst buying and downloading music in digital form remains such an ephemeral experience.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

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

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good. They can afford bigger houses, or they can actually afford to buy a house, they can work the minimal amount and still get by. I think there's a really strong sense of community there. It's beautiful.

Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

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

Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

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

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

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Painting my nails is the easiest way to look as though I've made an effort.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I was honored when [Donald Trump] asked me to chair the transition effort.

Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

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

I can control my effort, how hard I work and taking advantage of the opportunities.

It's cool that MTV is making an effort to support bands like us.