Effortless Quotes

• Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

  Connie Willis

  Love, Art, Hero

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• The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

  Lynda Barry

  Upset, Wrecks, Emotional Wreck

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• I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Guy

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• It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

  Katarina Witt

  Running, Work, Looks

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• Macrame is effortless.

  Catherine Malandrino

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• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Self, Cards, Credit

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Love is effortless attention.

  Guy Finley

  Love, Love Is, Attention

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• Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

  Lester Levenson

  Opposites, Effort, Way

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• Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Faith, Struggle, Learning

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• If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

  Anne Hathaway

  Letting Go, Happy Life, People

  "Anne Hathaway to Neil Patrick Harris: "Do the Opposite of What I Did" at the Oscars" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 6, 2015.

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• To me, what's sexy is when you look like you're having a good time. That, and when you look effortless and have messy hair.

  Kate Upton

  Sexy, Hair, Looks

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Space, My Thoughts

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Sep 21, 2011

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• I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Effort, Singing

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inspirational Love

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• Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

  Richard Russo

  Fun, Looks, Oscars

  "Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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• The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Father, Struggle

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• Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

  Geneen Roth

  Real, Effort, Quick Fixes

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

  Akon

  Dream, Sleep, Differences

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• Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

  Stefano Pilati

  Attitude, Luxury, Chic

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• It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Hard Work, Effort, Human Nature

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• What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

  Stanley Donen

  Unseen, Looks, Want

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• I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Struggle, Artist

  "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

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