Effortless Quotes - Page 7

• The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

  Josef Pieper

  Hard Work, Men, Toil

  Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

  Margaret Mead

  Breathing, Loving You, Lovely

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.105, Basic Books

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• The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

  Toni Morrison

  Sweat, Language, Provocative

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

  Liya Kebede

  Fashion, Children, Want

  "4 Effortessly Chic Moms Talk Shop". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You don't. In fact, at this point I'm considering a petition to that word stricken from the English language." His grin was almost lazy, the gleam in his eyes an effortless challenge. "If I did, would you sign?

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Voice, Challenges

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Memories, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world

  Stella McCartney

  Ipads, World

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• The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, People, Triumph

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

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• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Spiritual, Business

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

  Steve Toltz

  Relationship, Talking, Piano

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau

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• Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophical, Delight, Care

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.278, Crown Archetype

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• A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

  Nina Dobrev

  Sexy, Men, Mirrors

  "Nina Dobrev Is Our September Cover Girl!" by Laura Brounstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 5, 2013.

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• The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

  Gae Aulenti

  Design, Serenity, Principles

  Gae Aulenti, Margherita Petranzan (1997). “Gae Aulenti”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

  Richard Mabey

  Moving, Cat, Grace

  Richard Mabey (2005). “Nature Cure”, p.226, University of Virginia Press

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• I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Meditation, Energy

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