Efforts Quotes

You can't just play the way The Grateful Dead plays without working at it. It's not something that is easy or just happened to us. There was a long, slow process that brought that into being.

I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.

You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Nothing can come of nothing.

God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work...Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts.