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Quotes About Effortless

I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
~ Ralph Lauren
Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.
~ Rocco DiSpirito
What would this look like if it were easy?
~ Timothy Ferriss
What would this look like if it were easy? "This" could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Then, I did what I often do—whether considering a business decision, personal relationship, or otherwise—I asked myself the one question that helps answer many others . . . What would this look like if it were easy?
~ Timothy Ferriss
The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.
~ Timothy Ferriss
But what happens if we frame things in terms of elegance instead of strain? Sometimes, we find incredible results with ease instead of stress. Sometimes, we "solve" the problem by completely reframing it.
~ Timothy Ferriss
What I really like about Ultherapy is that it's really convenient. You only have to do it once a year for 45 minutes. That's really fast.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
Easy. Peasy
~ P.C. Cast
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
~ Pat Conroy
She moved like clouds, like water, like anything lovely and effortless and free.
~ Patricia Wentworth
like a duck going to water without its feathers getting wet.
~ Daniel Odier
Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
~ Alison Gopnik
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
~ Bob Hope
He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of...
~ Helen DeWitt
The longer Levin mowed, the more often he felt those moments of oblivion during which it was no longer his arms that swung the scythe, but the scythe itself that lent motion to his whole body, full of life and conscious of itself, and, as if by magic, without a thought of it, the work got rightly and neatly done on its own. These were the most blissful moments.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Keep it simple. I usually have my hair up in a ballet bun and a great pair of sunglasses for when I'm on the go. On vacation, all you need is a sexy dress and great perfume, paired with a gorgeous red lip.
~ Lily Aldridge
Doesn't everyone have in them this potential change and becoming? This absolute singularity which demands only to occur effortlessly, an inspired form freed from the straitjacket of our individual being? We have this becoming within us, and we lack nothing, since we are rid of truth. The world too lacks nothing as it is; it opposes any attempt to make it signify anything whatever. To inflict truth on it is like explaining a joke or a funny story.
~ Jean Baudrillard
As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].
~ T.I.
I have never done a stroke of work in my life.
~ Tony Sarg
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
~ James Whistler
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
~ Donna Karan
It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.
~ David McCandless