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"When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?"
"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."
"Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go."
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
"It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally."
"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
"Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible."
"Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners."
"Fame is a constant effort"
"Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights."
"Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream."
"I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort."
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."
"The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you."
"Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood."
"Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant."
"I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding."
"Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business."
"The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse."
"To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails."
