Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

    Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
    Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

    All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James (b. 1939)

    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)