The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

Mastery is an endless quest to reduce effort without reducing effectiveness.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

A block won’t move without the effort.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Hope floats but effort propels.

Gift ain’t what you take by effort, as swag ain’t what you worthy have.

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

As to the number of novels I’ve abandoned… I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that’s a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

In every problem, there’s a concealed solution…locking itself underneath…unlock,peruse,find and solve.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with...

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

The good life doesn’t knock on the door. Joy is a job.

I Have a Dream.”24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first...

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The...

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience… the two things we all lack..

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally...

We always give our best effort to achieve our goal in any way. It is believed to be happy in that way. Unfortunately, we always pay less attention to the ways of our achievement. We...

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the...

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

do nothing” to still the mind, quiet fears, or resolve conflicts—all of this is doing something. It only leads to more struggling and prevents you from seeing the actual nature of thought and internal conflict....

A scientist’s accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

I’m really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist – a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion...

Before you speak… I have already heard. Before you see… I had seen a million times. Before you reach… I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

Imagination is reality in one’s mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.

Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.

I’ve seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

True laziness is the commitment to decrease work and increase efficiency; reduce burden and boost creativity; expand your knowledge and avoid complications; minimize effort and still get it done.

All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects...

Jess thought for a moment. ‘You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there’s always that bit when the baddie slips...

Finding a writer who can write decent kids’ dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not ‘cute’ is an effort.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you...

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Hope, and faith that your efforts will have been enough. And as much peace as you can muster with the possibility that they won’t.

Energy is precious, use your energy to build not to destroy

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.