Quotes of: Concerted-effort Keyword

A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

La culture, c'est un effort permanent de l'être pour échapper à sa vile condition de primate sous-civilisé.

The Library of Unrequited Love

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Live Your Truth

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Little Women

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

Streams of Silver

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Outliers: The Story of Success

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

You need to make effort and commit time to do what you love.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

He wondered if perhaps, subconsciously, he was trying to sabotage her efforts by setting the bar too high, trying to keep her with him longer; but surely his subconscious wasn't that stupid?

Queen of Shadows

You see,” she interrupted his blank stare, “it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed.

Remnant of the Beast

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

Let me go!” I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip. “I’m never going to let you go again.

Redemption

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

Two-Way Street