Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.
no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
Maybe if they had put a little more effort into it, the labor theory of value would be better appreciated today.
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
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.
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
