Quotes About Effort

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.