"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
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"Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes."
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"In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue."
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"I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction."
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"You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?"
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"The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise."
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"If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks."
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"The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning."
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"All our efforts must tend towards light."
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"I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful."
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"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting."
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"Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary."
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"It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
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"Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it."
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"Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box."
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"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."
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"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."
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