#endeavor

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#attention #concentration #detail #endeavor #requires

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge. ↗

— Richard King

#because #challenge #else #endeavor #ever

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#danger #endeavoring #go #occupy #ought

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities. ↗

— Ben Stein

#endeavor #field #find #interests #matches

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#common #common things #endeavor #far #our

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#horror #nerd-humor #oppel #this-dark-endeavor #humor

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you. ↗

— John Dykstra

#artistic #as far as #away #being #concerned

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#else #endeavor #enjoying #golfers #human

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime. ↗

— Stanford Moore

#benefit #concern #dedicating #endeavors #estate