Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central f...
If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.
Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.
A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
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.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
La culture, c'est un effort permanent de l'être pour échapper à sa vile condition de primate sous-civilisé.
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.
...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.
Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.
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.
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.
