Effort Quotes - Page 29

• When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivation, Powerful, Ordinary

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• The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

  Henri Matisse

  Courage, Artist, Essentials

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

  Clement Greenberg

  Cezanne, Evolution, Painting

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "On the Role of Nature in Modernist Painting" (1949), p. 171, 1961.

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• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  Stephen Dunn

  Rain, Sunset, Animal

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Unions, Oneself

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

  Leonard Orr

  Boredom, Negative, Used

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• Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

  Mooji

  Mean, Silence, Technique

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• The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

  Daniel Dennett

  Caring, Best Effort, Society

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

  Alain Prost

  Thinking, Winning, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Home, People, Looks

  LeRoy Neiman (1974). “Art & lifestyle”

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Morning, Children, Believe

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Commitment, Two, Majority

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• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  Nelson Goodman

  Lying, Answers, Dull

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Virginia, Giving

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

  Burt Rutan

  Government, Space, Als

  "Private spacecraft blast offs June 21" by Leonard David, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

  Andrew Natsios

  Compassion, Brotherhood, Usaid

  "Foley remembered for 'compassion'" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2002.

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Nuclear, Exhausted

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• When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Analogies, Representation

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

  William Graham Sumner

  Art, Doe, Tasks

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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