Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

    “Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “And in counterpoint, from other windows,
    the effort to be merry—ay, maracas!
    Msibilant, intricate—the voices wailing pleasure,
    arriving perhaps at joy, late, after sets
    have been switched off, and silences
    are dark windows?”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

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