Quotes About Effort

Talent is only the starting point.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.