Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“You know that the nucleus of a time is not
The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
He shares the confusions of intelligence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)