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“One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.”

May Evil Easy Natural Ambition Consequence Tasks Discouraging Inconvenience Pernicious Proficiency Natural Consequences Easy Tasks

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.”

Ifs May Real Easy Forget Goes On Consequence Affection Gentle Absurdity

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.”

People May Persons Shows Easy Consequence Selfish Selfishness Why Not Show Me Easiness

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.”

Men World Way Has Beens Evil Easy Sin Mistake Opinion Consequence Fallen Pleasant Ingenious Pernicious Popular Opinion Erring

Author:Hosea Ballou

“In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.”

Running Faces Choices Easy Difficult Decision Company Consequence Lonely Excuse Ceo Folds Wrong Choices Plentiful

Author:Ben Horowitz

“The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.”

Want Long Problem Easy Answers Powerful Worry Rich Consequence Doctors Sick Medicine Profession Cures General Public

Author:Moliere

“But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.”

Men Heart Said Easy Church Atheism Ignorance Consequence Atheist Substance Fallen They Said Godly Easy Things Godly Man

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.”

“Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.”

People Knows Believe Kind Beautiful Faces Evil Easy Moral Wonderful Serious Creatures Consequence Bigger Agree Lions Cowardice Arena Outrage Transfers Impotence Beautiful Creatures

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.”

Needs Country Body Certain Energy Easy Answers Industry Demand Consequence Plant Nuclear Capture Globes Insatiable Nuclear Power Power Plants Easy Answers

Author:Ivy Meeropol

“To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.”

Firsts Easy Consequence Blind Perseverance Impulse Persevere Sanctity Inertia

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.”

Way Sometimes Reason Action Easy My Friends Consequence Meat Lazy Eggs Ethical Vegan Easy Way

Author:Moby

“The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.”

“All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.”

World Way May Stories Easy Principles Comfortable Spring Consequence Slave Premises Basic Principles

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth. We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are. It's easy to put them aside, and the media don't talk about them.”

Thinking Needs Humans Littles Use Eye Earth Easy Environment Effects Media Fronts Consequence Destroying Plastic Epoch Geologist Destroying The Environment

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets that controlled viewership around the world and, by consequence, controlled the public opinion. But today, this platform is democratized. Any community around the world can help. That is the great thing about our time.”

World Helping Today Easy Community Opinion Consequence Communicate Spread Great Things

Author:Yasmine Elmasri

“I work too hard, and, as a consequence, have had to learn how to stay healthy when the pressure is on. I'm not perfect but I've learnt a few things that are relatively easy for all of us to do. For example, I do Psychocalisthenics, a 16 minute exercise system probably every other day.”

Easy Perfect Exercise Healthy Consequence Not Perfect

Author:Patrick Holford

“It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.”

Sometimes Matter Easy My Own Decision Circumstances Consequence Responsible Fingers Tragic Addict Benign

Author:Moby

“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”

Trying Easy Advice Consequence Suggestions Natural Consequences Pandit

Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”

War Politics Easy Serious Consequence Bloody Seriousness Messy

Author:Oliver Stone

“On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.”

Reason Hate Easy Black Animal Emotion Economy Creation Consequence Sacred Raised Scales Reason Why Factories Ecology Disrespect Environmentalist Mattresses Walnuts Chainsaw

Author:Joel Salatin

“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.”

Source: Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth

“Lying to yourself is easy, too. I know. It's much harder to stay and deal with consequences.”

Knows Lying Easy Deals Consequence Harder Lying To Yourself

Book:Sea Glass

Source: Sea Glass

“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”

Way Children Said Might Action Wish Easy Difficult Mistake Events Consequence Concerned Contrary Hardest My Children Behave Right Way Our Actions Darling Coping

Author:Elizabeth George

“It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.”

Easy Mistake Consequence Hardest Making Mistakes

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

Easy Community Responsibility Integrity Consequence Accountability Personal Responsibility Dodge Business Ethics Self Responsibility Natural Consequences Responsibility And Accountability

Author:Josiah Stamp