Effort Quotes

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.