Quotes About Endeavor

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Let me continue to try to set the record straight: I never retired.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Gabriel Tardes's remark that "life is a search for the impossible via the useless.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Whatever you want me to bake, I'll do it badly.

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Because it is there

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

The better you did—the more contests you won—the greater the next goal, the greater the next mission.

We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.