Quotes About Making An Effort

#1. Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.

Andres Neuman

#2. The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

Aaron Peirsol

#3. You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

Matt Bomer

#5. You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

Christopher Walken

#6. Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Jude Law

#8. No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Sonam Kapoor

#9. His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.

Arundhati Roy

#10. I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

Gretchen Rubin

#11. Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.

Lionel Suggs

#12. Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you.

Don McLean

#13. There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Ajay Devgan

#14. MAKING AN EFFORT
Our so-called limitations, I believe,
apply to faculties we don't apply.
We don't discover what we can't achieve
until we make an effort not to try.

Piet Hein

#15. When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

Malcolm Forbes

#16. Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.

Regina R. Carver

#17. Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

Harvey Keitel

#18. Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

Sachin Tendulkar

#19. Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way." For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of him. "It's Maxine," she said. "Remember me?

Clive Barker

#20. You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

Ali Vincent

#21. I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.

Dalai Lama XIV

#22. Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

Beryl Bender Birch

#23. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

Tori Spelling

#24. Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Raymond Smullyan

#26. Wow. This girl has some serious issues in the people-skills department. She's sort of a bitch, even though she's making an effort not to be one.

Colleen Hoover

#27. Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

Thomas A. Edison

#28. So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

Suzanne Collins

#29. Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Fran Lebowitz

#31. Unlike cognitive load, ego depletion is at least in part a loss of motivation. After exerting self-control in one task, you do not feel like making an effort in another, although you could do it if you really had to. In

Daniel Kahneman

#32. To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

George Spencer-Brown

#33. I was trying to be polite, I felt like the beast making an effort to be kind to the beauty. The only difference is that this beauty wouldn't find her handsome prince in the end.

Mercy Cortez

#34. An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#35. Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Andrew Young

#36. If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

Mindy Kaling

#37. One thing that continually astonishes me is the degree to which we're influenced by sheer convenience. The amount of effort, time, or decision making required by an action has a huge influence on habit formation.

Gretchen Rubin

#38. Parker, what are you doing?" "Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish.

Penny Reid

#39. Are you actullay thise stupid? Or are you just making an extra effort just for me?

Razi

#40. O-90 sat over the notebook, her head leaning toward her left shoulder, and making such an effort that her tongue was pushing her left cheek out. She looked like such a child, so charming. And so I felt good all over, clear, simple ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#41. All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

Yi-Fu Tuan

#42. This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.

David Halberstam

#43. I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must have changed. I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other.

Samuel Beckett

#44. We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?

Jesse Schell

#45. Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.

Henry Spencer

#46. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#47. I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

Clive Owen

#48. He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Aldous Huxley

#49. Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

Ariel Sharon

#50. and perhaps not even Dr. Sproul, since his text underwent certain editorial revisions. However, this commentary represents an effort at making clear the precise position of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy as a whole.

R.C. Sproul

#51. Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Anthony Bourdain

#52. Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Bill Vaughan

#53. The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write ... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

Chris Van Allsburg

#54. Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

Portia De Rossi

#55. Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves.

Beem Weeks

#56. Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

Halston Sage

#57. The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Robert Henri

#58. Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it ... which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be ...

Lucy Grealy

#59. I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.

Jennifer Tipton

#60. Making movies is an effort, is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

Frederick Wiseman

#61. There is no shame in making an honest effort.

Epictetus

#62. Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

Dinesh D'Souza

#63. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge