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"What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping."
"Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear."
"There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish."
"Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be."
"In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?"
"Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other."
"I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen."
"Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings"
"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."
"The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim."
"Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure."
"Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me."
"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."
"My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker."
"Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement"
"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."
"I always say, to have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!"
"By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches."
