Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“I then understood that a man who would have lived but one day could without effort live one hundred years in a prison. He would have enough memories to avoid getting bored.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965)