Effortless Quotes - Page 3

• Meditation is not a technique to master;
  it is the highest form of prayer,
  a naked act of love and effortless surrender
  into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

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• The times when I am running the best are when it feels effortless. The body is on autopilot, doing what you have trained it to do.

  Perdita Felicien

  Running, Track, Body

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• Life as a Divine Creator is effortless. You don't have to do things to make them happen; you call forth people, situations, and events from an inner decision of being.

  Melanie

  People, Decision, Events

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• Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

  Jack Lemmon

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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• At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Beautiful, War, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.379, Random House

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• What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Effort, Looks

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• Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Friend, Essence, Long

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• Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Buffets, Rationality

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Running, Feet, Flying

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• I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

  Bob Dylan

  Damn, Awe, Can Do

  "Bob Dylan on Old America and 'Modern Times'". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. May 3, 2007.

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• If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Grace

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• Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

  Heidi Klum

  Clothes, Personality, Trying

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• What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Being Yourself, Style, Together

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• The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

  Mike Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Talking

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

  Steve Tibbetts

  Dancer, Listening, Liquid

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• Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

  Lubov Azria

  Lines, Shade, Silhouettes

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• Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

  Donna Tartt

  Diversity, Healthy, Growing

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

  Natalie Portman

  Girl, Thinking, Wish

  "Natalie Portman: 'Miss Dior'". www.sneakpeek.ca. August 21, 2017.

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• I'm in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same. She can switch up the delivery, but it's still with the right intention. Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them. She's been doing Trip to Bountiful for four months, and it still feels real. She's pretty amazing.

  Adepero Oduye

  Real, Months, Different

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• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  Johnny Marr

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
  in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
  By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
  we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Real, Heart, Meditation

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• Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident.

  Sophie Cookson

  Sexy, Suits, Worn

  Source: wwd.com

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