Effortless Effort Quotes

#1. I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

Rajneesh

#2. You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect. - Sri Amit Ray

Amit Ray

#3. What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Joe Hyams

#4. Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

Mark Nepo

#5. We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.

Alexander Isley

#6. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.

Pablo Neruda

#7. Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness.

Carol S. Dweck

#8. Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Greg Carlson

#9. I feel that whole vibe of that tomboy chic thing that's been introduced years ago by Alexa Chung and things in that sort of evolution is what I like to wear. I just like to look effortless because I don't want to put too much effort into it.

Brittany Snow

#10. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kelli Williams

#11. There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

Walter E. Williams

#12. He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Evelyn Underhill

#13. Stretching yourself brings you maximum effort with effortless flow, aligning with spirit and purpose.

Ron Broussard

#14. What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

John Olsen

#15. It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Norman Foster

#16. Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

Lester Levenson

#17. Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

Simon Sinek

#18. It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

Ben Mitchell

#19. I DON'T LIKE MY VOICE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I LOOK. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I MOVE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I ACT. I MEAN, PERIOD. SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T LIKE MYSELF.

Elizabeth Taylor

#20. To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort- to live effortless, a kind of conscious sleep- that is very beautiful, I think- that is our after life- our immortality.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Frederic William Farrar

#22. The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Donald G. Mitchell

#23. Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

Alexa Chung

#24. The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?

Elif Shafak

#25. It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

Geneen Roth

#27. It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

Neale Donald Walsch

#28. Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

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

Sanhita Baruah

#30. I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Donald Sterling

#31. Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

Tim Fargo

#32. What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

Sara Blakely

#33. When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

M. Scott Peck

#34. To appear effortless requires much effort.

Julie Murphy

#35. The state of rest is as important as the state of motion. Motion may lead to progress, but motion also leads to collisions and conflict. Motion requires effort and energy. Rest is effortless and undemanding.

Biju Vasudevan

#36. Fuck you, Cyn. I can't take you anywhere."
"Maybe he was shooting at you!" she hissed.

D.B. Reynolds

#37. Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

Richelle E. Goodrich