Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
You might be a redneck if in an effort to watch your cholesterol, you eat Spam Lite.
We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice. ’
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.
Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.