Quotes About Effortless

#1. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Wallace Stegner

#2. A few stray leaves are floating along the surface, and I like how peaceful they look, not going under the water, and not blowing away either. Just floating, weightless and effortless. I want to be a leaf.

Carian Cole

#3. Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.

Gudjon Bergmann

#4. The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

Mike Brown

#5. Yes! I know who the father is ... bitch.
Stephens, S.C. (2012-08-16). Effortless (Thoughtless Book 2) (p. 365). Gallery Books. Kindle Edition.

S.C. Stephens

#6. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Vera Nazarian

#7. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

Ayn Rand

#8. Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.

George Ade

#9. I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.

Mel Gibson

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

Joe Hyams

#11. 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

#12. The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

Aaron Patzer

#13. I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they're fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.

Blake Lively

#14. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

Thomas S. Monson

#15. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.

Kenny Werner

#16. When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

Peter Hook

#17. Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" They won't see the years of toil and sweat that went into it.

Austin Kleon

#18. 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

#19. Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Zaha Hadid

#20. Look out from within and observe the words, actions, reactions, and feelings that evolve from you. Release the identity with what you have observed if it creates tension and stress. Surely you will dissolve into effortless being that way.

Franklin Gillette

#21. I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.

Laura Mvula

#22. To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Johnny Weir

#23. I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.

Behati Prinsloo

#24. Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward ...

Martha Beck

#25. Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Mary McFadden

#26. There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

Matthew McConaughey

#27. Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident.

Sophie Cookson

#28. She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me.

Robyn Schneider

#29. What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

#30. I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head ... and having it appear quite effortless.

Tony Bennett

#31. Even if jobless we should never be effortless.

Kenan Crnkic

#32. I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

Jacob Latimore

#33. I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

Kathryn Hahn

#34. That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.

George R R Martin

#35. If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

Alice Waters

#36. If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him.

Rajneesh

#37. Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.

Danielle L. Jensen

#38. Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world

Stella McCartney

#39. I launched forward. The Shift was effortless. A snarl ripped from my throat, and the ground rushed past me. My paws were nearly skinned with the pace. My people joined me. Death was on the wind, in our voice, in our soul.

Meg Caddy

#40. The key for hipsters is that they usually try really hard, but the important thing is they want to come across like they don't try. To make it look effortless. I don't mind. It really fits New York, the hipster look.

Henrik Lundqvist

#41. Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

Peggy Sealfon

#42. It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

Tom Petty

#43. No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

Dee Dee Myers

#44. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

Anne Hathaway

#45. He was smooth water - effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim.

Pepper Winters

#46. I love Drake
he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

Italo Zucchelli

#47. L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

Geoff Mulgan

#48. loving you is easy and effortless, trust in you is the hard part

S.C. Stephens

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

Geneen Roth

#50. 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

#51. To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

Michael Doucet

#52. Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.

Bryant McGill

#53. I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Rita Ora

#54. 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

#55. Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Connie Willis

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

Sanhita Baruah

#57. When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously.

Debbie Ford

#58. Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.

Loch Kelly

#59. Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.

Terry Teachout

#60. My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I always want to be comfortable in my clothes and feel like myself, but I like to usually throw in some edge in there somewhere, even just with a leather jacket. But overall, always gotta keep it classy!

Tori Kelly

#61. I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Peggy Fleming

#62. It was your basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both.

Tana French

#63. A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.

Erin O'Connor

#64. When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.

Peter Santos

#65. I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

David Grubbs

#66. The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Toni Morrison

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

Tim Fargo

#68. Harness the power of love to create spontaneous success with effortless ease.

Debasish Mridha

#69. With Will I had never had to consider what I said; talking to him was as effortless as breathing. Now I was good at not really saying anything about myself at all.

Jojo Moyes

#70. A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

#71. Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

Ramesh S Balsekar

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

Sara Blakely

#73. My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen ... my mother and three or four of her friends ... told stories ... with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

Paule Marshall

#74. Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

Stanley Clarke

#75. Sometimes," she said in her pretty, quiet voice, "being the one who has to work extra hard to come close to what is effortless for everyone else truly sucks. Is that what you were trying to say?

Heidi Cullinan

#76. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

#77. We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?

Steve Goodier

#78. 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

#79. When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

Ramana Maharshi

#80. Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory ... these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

#81. What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#82. To appear effortless requires much effort.

Julie Murphy

#83. 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

#84. My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Ennis

#85. Loving you, Kellan, is so easy, it's effortless."
His smile matched mine, then I frowned and sighed "Trusting you ... that's the hard part

S.C. Stephens

#86. The times when I am running the best are when it feels effortless. The body is on autopilot, doing what you have trained it to do.

Perdita Felicien

#87. You don't suck another person's sucker uninvited.

S.C. Stephens

#88. Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A

Vladimir Nabokov

#89. People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

Keith Michael

#90. Sharzad was rewarded with one of his uncommonly effortless smiles. The kind that changed a face of shadows into one of light".

Renee Ahdieh

#91. I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling - it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.

Stephenie Meyer

#92. I'm in awe of McCartney. He's about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he's never let up ... He's just so damn effortless.

Bob Dylan

#93. It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.

Stephen Wolfram

#94. But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.

Coco J. Ginger

#95. Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

Jimmy Carter

#96. Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Karl Barth

#97. Being with her is my survival; loving her is effortless. She is the shining center of my universe and her love is the moon that pulls the tide of my heart.

Jewel E. Ann

#98. 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

#99. Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.

Oh Land

#100. Loving you is so easy, it's effortless.

S.C. Stephens