Effort Quotes - Page 37

• Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Fighting

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• The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Responsibility, Kuwait

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• The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Kyoto, Years, Metrics

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• If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries to reduce their emissions. Achievement of substantial reduction in this way implies international transfers of wealth on a scale well beyond anything in recorded history. There is no effective political support for such a Herculean effort, particularly in the United States.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Country, Kyoto Protocol, Support

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• An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enough, Enlightened, Individual

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• If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bullshit, Mind, Want

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• It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Art, Practice

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Feelings, Intensity

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• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Enlightenment, Selfishness

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Enlightenment, May

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• When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Laughing

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• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

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• You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Enlightened, Incarnation

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• In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism

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• If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Enough Time, Study

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• Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Eternity, Transcendental

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• You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightened, Teach, Wells

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• Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Light

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• No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?

  Tom Brevoort

  Book, Numbers, Comfort

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• I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.

  Gail Simone

  Stress, Book, Successful

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• The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Real, Breathing

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

  Lee Wulff

  Lying, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

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• Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Judgement

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.136

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