#effort

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

The one thing that matters is the effort. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#matters #one thing #the one thing #thing

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#agenda #also #am #craft #efforts

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

#consists #effort #fanaticism #forgotten #you

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

#desired #efforts #end #never #people

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ↗

— George Santayana

#effort #eternal #existence #interesting #keep

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#children #efforts #encourage #i #know

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#effort #had #joint #marriage #me

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#continues #each #effort #end #independent