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The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.
Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
So I do make a real effort that all of my videos are things that, if I had kids, I wouldn't mind them watching.
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.
It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.
I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.
Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.
I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.