Best Effort Quotes - Page 7

• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

  Robert Browning

  Haunting, Curse, Incomplete

  Robert Browning (1989). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book”

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• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

  Max Lerner

  Congratulations, Men, Goal

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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