Minimal Effort Quotes

#1. Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

Paul Valery

#2. Certainty is a convenient and easy way out of our discomfort. It is the mind's equivalent of fast food - to satisfy our hunger for answers with minimal effort.

Rod Judkins

#3. The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Ashly Lorenzana

#4. I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. Proper storage is about creating a home for something so that minimal effort is required to find it and put it away.

Geralin Thomas

#6. If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort required because I'm constantly packing. My off-duty style is always influenced by my mood.

Martha Hunt

#7. Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

Louis C.K.

#8. So: just drinks, minimal effort on his part, and you have travel to him. Ladies, are you getting sexually excited just reading this?!

Aziz Ansari

#9. In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Theodore Kaczynski

#10. No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Albert Bandura

#12. Her head started spinning, thinking about a date with Rhett O'Donnell.
I need to go fishing and clear my mind, she thought. I've always been in love with Tanner, and now Rhett is in the picture. I had trouble handling one secret cowboy. Two is one cowboy too many.

Carolyn Brown

#13. In fact, humans on Titan could fly by muscle power. A human in a hang glider could comfortably take off and cruise around powered by oversized swim-flipper boots - or even take off by flapping artificial wings. The power requirements are minimal - it would probably take no more effort than walking.

Randall Munroe

#14. The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds them, such as the subtle movement of a person's hand or foot that might betray his thoughts or intentions.

Joe Navarro

#15. I walk on, wondering how the people who have the least to give are often the ones who give the most.

Mike McIntyre

#16. The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Fredric Jameson

#17. Getting healthy doesn't have to be a chore. The Five Rivers Journey requires minimal extra effort for the maximum results!

Dev Lahli

#18. There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

Michael Eric Dyson

#19. The scenes of existence can be modified. One creates his own circumstances.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. What would happen if we who call ourselves Christians were as driven to share our lives with God as we are to debate theology? Do we, after all, propose to win the world over by flawless theology - or by presenting to them a flawless Person?

Ken McFarland

#21. They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

Aldous Huxley

#22. This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.

Sakyong Mipham

#23. Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...

Margaret Halsey

#24. His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Augusten Burroughs

#25. Agile methods don't attempt to describe everything that any development effort might need in thousands of pages of documentation. Instead they describe a minimal set of activities that are needed to create swarm intelligence.

Jim Highsmith

#26. The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.

Linus Torvalds