Quotes About Effort

Teach the growth mindset. Every success is going to involve rough patches.

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

If you are leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change. Granted

in situations where change is needed, too much analysis can doom the effort. The Rider will see too many problems and spend too much time sizing them up.

We should make an effort to praise ingenious solutions to customers' problems.

Atlas Shrugged also brought into focus the many inefficiencies of the unionized labour system. I had a union job on the pipeline—which was exactly why I had so much time to read. But there were times in Alaska when I saw a simple task being performed by three people because the union required one guy to drive a machine, a different guy to flip a switch, and a third guy to make sure the machine didn't run out of gas.

Never choose something because it's easier.

diligent focus on the task at hand.

Practice only when you really want to practice and not because everybody is meditating. When you have decided to meditate regularly, make a schedule and follow it. Constancy of aim and effort and non-laziness is the key to success and spiritual development.

Although Pranic Healing greatly improves the condition of the patient, the rate of healing would be much faster if the patient consciously exerts effort to forgive those who may have actually or imaginarily hurt him or her.

Et nous sommes en grant poverte, S'est riches de nostre deserte Chil pour qui nous nous traveillons. Des nuis grant partie veillons Et les jours tous, pour gaagnier, Qu'il nous manache a mehaigner Des membres quant nous reposons ; Et pour che reposer n'osons.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.

When your energy's right, work becomes easy & fun. When it's wrong, it's quite the opposite. Your choice…

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

Success is the product of many components, of which one of the most prominent is focus.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

The biggest complaint we heard in those days was that the training was too easy.

turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort.

It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.