Effort Quotes - Page 32

• The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

  Burton Silverman

  Energy, Finishing, Way

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• Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

  Joe Fafard

  Money, Artist, Years

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• In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

  Kevin Powell

  Motivation, Humanity, Mind

  Kevin Powell (2008). “The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

  Denise Morrison

  Growth, Next Steps, Ongoing

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• Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Mind, Independence

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• It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

  Gary Ryan

  Ordinary, Enough, Shows

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• To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Individual Effort, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts.

  Jane Roberts

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.261, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

  Kathy Griffin

  Best Effort, House, Magic

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• True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Mind, Naked, Facts

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Deep Thought, Climbs

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• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lasts, Trouble, Century

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

  Susan Neiman

  Plato, Enlightenment, Belief

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• Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Skills, Originality

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.133, Criss Jami

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• Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hero, Heart, Persistence

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• Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Acting, Steam

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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

  Morgan Wootten

  Winning, Obsessed, Bigs

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• President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Differences, President

  Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 24, 1960.

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• A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Mind, Bars, Littles

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

  St. Jerome

  Athlete, Stronger, Presses

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.467, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Ocean, Men

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• Attitude determines effort.

  Anthony Pettis

  Attitude, Ufc, Mma

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• All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Stupid, Intelligent, Usual

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2007). “The New Industrial State”, p.431, Princeton University Press

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• An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.

  Antoni Tapies

  Mean, Doors, Lasts

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Hands, Grace

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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