Quotes About Effort

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

Genius is the art of taking pains

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.