To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.
Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.
I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.
I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
