Quotes: Effort

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

The voice doesn’t take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there’s a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that’s all art can be.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the “environmentalist” view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.