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.

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.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold...

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Hardworking is a good attribute, but the pay off is determined by whether you are investing the great effort in the right place.

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings that were sometimes bad but precious in memory, and bric-a-brac. Only...

There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don’t bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page – the writer’s obviously going to be trying their hardest...