W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Effort, Style

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Life Is Short, Long Ago

  "A Writer's Notebook (1941)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

• It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

• Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Hero, Self

• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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