Effort - Quotes
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities.
When you`re reading or skimming argumentative essays, especially by philosophers, here is a quick trick that may save you much time and effort, especially in this age of simple searching by computer: look for "surely" in the document, and check each occurrence. Not always, not even most of the time, but often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately co-ordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I`ve ever known.
We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends. But those rare times when we do open up, it`s amazing how minor those secrets all end up seeming.
Strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
What is true is not to be decided by votes; otherwise, we could never come to any truth ever. People would vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don’t have to do anything about them, you just have to believe... Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and to walk alone on a path which nobody has traveled before.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.