Effort Quotes - Page 28

• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

  Enrique Peñalosa

  Children, Cities, People

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• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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• If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal

  Paul Twitchell

  Thinking, Goal, Ready

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• It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Roots, Matter, Indifference

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook F", F 154), (1776-1779).

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• Una diferencia entre los que lo consiguen y los que no -independientemente de su campo de actividad- no es la diferencia de "talento". Los que llegan a lo más alto tienen un sueño y el sueño los tiene a ellos. Se comprometen y persiguen ese sueño con paciencia tenaz y persistencia. El compromiso genera un esfuerzo constante y entusiasta que inevitablemente produce recompensas cada vez mayores.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sueño, Compromiso, Persistencia

  Zig Ziglar (1997). "Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance", p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc.

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• No gano por mis propios esfuerzos o mi propia bondad, sino por la gracia, el amor y la misericordia de mi Señor y Salvador, Jesucristo. Él murió para que yo pudiera ganar este juego de la vida y vivir con Él para siempre.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jesus, Winning, Games

  Zig Ziglar Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). "The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar", Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• No hay nada más inspirador que una persona con un talento aparentemente mediocre que se alza contra todo pronóstico para convertirse en un campeón a base de trabajo duro, esfuerzo y perseverancia hacia sus objetivos.

  Zig Ziglar

  Perseverancia, trabajo duro, probabilidades

  Zig Ziglar Tom Ziglar (2012). "Nacido para Ganar: Encuentra tu código del éxito", p.27, AudioInk

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• I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  Edmund Burke

  Election, Proportion, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2600, Delphi Classics

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• It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Saint, Matter

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• Descubrirás con el tiempo que tengo una gran afición a profesar sentimientos viles, no sé por qué, a menos que provenga de largos esfuerzos por evitar la mojigatería.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Long, Great Love

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.46, Psychology Press

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• Debo confesar que estoy profundamente preocupado. Temo que los seres humanos estén empeñados en llevar a cabo un vasto deseo de muerte y que ahora nos corresponde a nosotros hacer todo lo posible por promover la resistencia a la locura y la brutalidad de unas políticas que contemplan el exterminio de cientos de millones de seres humanos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Insanity, Acting

  Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”

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• Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Humble, Requirements, Reason

  "The Cambridge Companion to Conducting". Book by José Antonio Bowen (p. 16), November 20, 2003.

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• In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Evil, Soul

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

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• I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Pared, Pensar, Gafas

  "Karl Lagerfeld: 'I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better'" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Editing, Fruit

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

  Evan Esar

  Yesterday, People, Today

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• It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Energy, Roles

  Roger Ebert's review of "Deep Throat", www.rogerebert.com. March 6, 1973.

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• At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

  Ansel Adams

  Country, Skills, America

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• There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.

  Tucídides

  Reflection, Winning, Past

  Thucydides, T. E. Wick (1982). “The Peloponnesian War”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Un portal mágico se abrió dentro de mi mente y me condujo a un mundo asombroso. [...] Antes de ese momento había adivinado, pero nunca había sabido con tanta positividad, que el mundo es extremadamente grande y que el sufrimiento y el trabajo son compañeros y compañeros de guerra no sólo del cretense, sino de todo hombre. [...] Que por medio de la poesía todo este sufrimiento y esfuerzo podía transformarse en sueño; por mucho que existiera lo efímero, la poesía podía inmortalizarlo convirtiéndolo en canto.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Sueño, Canción, Significado

  "Informe a Greco". Libro de Nikos Kazantzakis, trad. de P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, "Naxos", Cap. 11, p. 96, 1973.

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• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  Felix Dennis

  Sleep, Tired, Should Have

  "What I know about women". Interview with Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Estoy convencido de que las personas más desafortunadas son las que quieren hacer del amor un arte. Agria otros esfuerzos. De todos los artistas, son sin duda los más desgraciados.

  Norman Mailer

  Amor, Arte, Personas

  Norman Mailer (1992). "Advertisements for Myself", p.181, Harvard University Press

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• In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

  Antón Chéjov

  País, Lucha, Hombres

  "Uncle Vanya". Ply by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• De este modo, la vida valiente y llena de aspiraciones de un hombre enciende una llama en las mentes de otros con facultades e impulsos similares; y donde hay un esfuerzo igualmente vigoroso, es casi seguro que le seguirán la misma distinción y el mismo éxito. Así, la cadena del ejemplo se transmite a través del tiempo en una sucesión interminable de eslabones: la admiración excita la imitación y perpetúa la verdadera aristocracia del genio.

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Hombres, Luz, Llamas

  Samuel Smiles (2009). "Autoayuda: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct", p.528, The Floating Press

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• The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Wisdom, Men, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.32

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