"I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it."
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"In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching."
"Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth."
"To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors."
"There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it."
"Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?"
"Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law"
"Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world."
"The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit."
"Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."
"We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty."
"He who endeavors to please must appear pleased."
"When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest."
"Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs."
"I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor."
"Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty."
"Endeavor to live the life you have imagined."
"The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves."
"Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue."
"Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect."