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I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.
Everyone must remember that when you experience success, you should never leave behind the cause of it - which is effort and dedication.
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.
Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
Do NOT say you “can’t”! You can say, “I don’t want to”. You can say, “I’m not willing to put forth the effort”. But DO NOT say you CAN’T!
The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end.
Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.
It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.
Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.
If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.
When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.
I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
We just had a bunch of guys who liked each other, and we worked well together and sacrificed to win ball games. It was a real team effort.
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.
The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.
My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.