Best effort & easy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

Way Want Should Kind Persons Art Book Sometimes Jobs Reading Asks Literature Easy Can Do Challenges Simple Effort Tvs Direct What You Want All Kinds Passive Obscure Interactive

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.”

Easy Sound Term Effort Clean Enthusiasm Short Term Sustaining

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.”

Ifs Way Matter Easy Effort Smart Available Smarter Easy Way

Book:Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”

Knows Opportunity Easy Chance Effort Approach Pressure Glasses Offensive Second Chance

Author:Andy Kennedy

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

Done Age Past Easy Effort Contact Abstraction

Author:Piet Mondrian

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

Ifs Want Love Mind Heart Persons Sometimes Stories Easy Space Effort Magic Illusion Bother Pins

Author:Javan

“Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses”

Littles Hard Dream Easy Bits Effort Too Much Plans Discipline Little Bit Mass Scary

Author:Chris Murray

“No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.”

Book Reading Easy Effort Mines

Author:Ronald Fisher

“It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.”

Littles Has Beens Remember Easy Effort

Book:The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman

Source: The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman

“Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.”

“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.”

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Author:John Gruber

“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.”

People Heart Character Courses Evil Easy Effort Secret Kindness Rewards Noble Wicked Refrain Steers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.”

Knows Self Easy Common Effort Fantasy Strange Projects Surface Objectives Observation Intimacy Invites Detached Penetration

Author:Deena Metzger

“It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.”

Way Has Beens Easy Goal Hours Results Effort Worst Judging Setting Settings Setting Goals Easy To Judge

Book:How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.”

Want Easy Effort Like You

Author:Maria Schell

“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.”

“Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?”

Want Doe Matter Happens Life Is Choices Given Easy Effort What You Want Being True Why Not Good Life Life Is Not Easy Bad Life

Book:Smart Couples Finish Rich, Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner

Source: Smart Couples Finish Rich, Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner

“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.”

Ifs Feels Looks Littles Long Hard Done Jobs Easy Water Can Do Work Loss Results Effort Excellence Yield Spells Ducks Strain You Can Do It Vitality Fatigue Work Done Output

Author:B. C. Forbes

“We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.”

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Author:Michael B. Jordan

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.”

Thinking Believe Humans Persons Hard Reason Easy Human Beings Effort Endeavor Heroic Domain Innate Refined Wishful Thinking Separating Methodology

Author:Sam Harris

“In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.”

Littles Doe Home Happens Easy Perfect Effort Plans Goes On Habit Discussion Irritation Bickering Perfect Peace Many Homes

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.”

Knows Mean Stills Energy Easy Effort Technology Scientist Burning Alternatives Fuel Transition Phases Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”

Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.”

Spiritual Desire Easy Differences Church Effort Lord Growing Up Growing Discipline Determination Aging Saint Enormous Growing Old Sleepy Logging

Book:Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide

Source: Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide

“An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in resources; a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts; fortifications to check the first effort of rebellion; a regular administration to protect and punish; and a well-disciplined army to inspire fear, without provoking discontent and despair.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.”

People Self Form Easy Effort Masters Regret Tough Entrepreneur Instinct Dare All Time Guts Recalls Ignored Underestimate Preservation Sharks Self Preservation

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.”

Thinking Looks Littles Matter Easy Effort Our Lives Essence No Matter What Wave Beach Sand Grain Never Change Rearranging

Author:Neal Stephenson

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