Effortless Quotes - Page 6

• I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

  David Grubbs

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

  Alexa Chung

  Home, Effort, Looks

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• What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

  Joe Hyams

  Caring, Effort, Way

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.99, Bantam

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• I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

  Stephenie Meyer

  Taken, Breathing, Magic

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

  Keith Michael

  Mistake, Clothes, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling—it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Hands, Opposites

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• The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Play, Looks

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Powerful, People, Effort

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Thinking, World

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• To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

  Michael Doucet

  Song, Survival, Identity

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• I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Attitude, Style, Term

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• When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Ease, Fields

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• There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Determination, Loving Someone

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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the nerd wear for some much cooler clothes, despite the fact that he’d let his hair go all shaggy and loose to the point where it curved down into his face in that cool guy, slightly windswept, effortless way, despite the fact that every time I looked into his brilliant blue eyes I was totally reminded of the Zac Efron poster that used to hang on my old bedroom wall, it still didn’t make it okay for him to laugh at me the way he did.

  Alyson Noel

  Wall, Eye, Hair

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  My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Style, Too Much, Easy

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy. It's actually effortless - it's a flow.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Tired, Joy, Energy

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• I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Cost, Use, Nonchalance

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• Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

  Vince Aletti

  Men, Thinking, Rays

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• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Rivers, Mountain

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.

  Gigi Hadid

  Beautiful, Mom, Beach

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Grandparent, Return, Privilege

  john kenneth galbraith (1971). “the new industrial state”

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• I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Peaceful, World

  "Erykah Badu Unleashes Her 'Wild Rabbit'". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. July 13, 2012.

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• You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.

  John Gray

  Love You, Loving You, Wish

  John Gray (1999). “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: Book of Days”, Random House

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• Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Thinking, People

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