Quotes About Effort

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. In fact, nothing inspires and enhances effort like the experience of grace.

The discipline of secrecy will help us break the grip of human opinion over our souls and our actions. A discipline is an activity in our power that we do to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort. Jesus

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort.

So we do not have the strength we should have, and Jesus' commandments become overwhelmingly burdensome to us. In fact, many Christians cannot even believe he actually intended for us to carry them out. So what is the result? His teachings are treated as a mere ideal, one that we may better ourselves by aiming for but know we are bound to fall glaringly short of.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur.

Yehuda Köves was sweating and out of breath as

Néha hegyeket kell mozgatnunk ahhoz, hogy megtaláljuk az igazságot.

It doesn't matter what you do, only how well you do it.

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

Yang bisa kita lakukan sebagai penulis hanyalah mencoba, mengerahkan usaha, menabur benih, dan menuai panen apa pun yang diberikan dengan penuh sukacita dan syukur.

When running up a hill, it's all right to give up…as long as your feet keep moving.

When you begin transcendental training, focusing on your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warriors way.

Of course it's all a game. All of the good and hard and even bad things in life are just a game.

The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.

Carol Dweck, the psychologist who studies motivation, likes to say that all the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort.

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways—operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter. Or to put it a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them—as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go—end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett

Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

Chi si lamenta della fatica, se sa di lavorare per la conquista della propria libertà?

Forthrightness is the brain's default response: our neural wiring transmits our every minor mood onto the muscles of our face, making our feelings instantly visible. The display of emotion is automatic and unconscious, and so its suppression demands conscious effort. Being devious about what we feel—trying to hide our fear or anger—demands active effort and rarely succeeds perfectly.22