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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Ernest Shackleton

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Ernest Thompson Seton

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Robert Falcon Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Richard G. Scott

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Jason Schwartzman

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jessica Savitch

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.