Quotes About Effort

No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.

As Seth Lloyd puts it: "To do anything requires energy. To specify what is done requires information."3

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

they don't need to love you. Do your best to address their concerns, be consistent in your messaging, and have faith they'll come around eventually. If you move seriously to resolve these issues, and if you do it in a smart, disciplined fashion, they'll eventually notice.

You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond

One does one's best - Silk

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. That is being taught how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race — the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

Life is life tennis: Those who serve best usually win.

Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't works of art for your entertainment, X.

L'odio che provi a fine giornata per tutto il lavoro è semplicemente parte del lavoro

That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.

if you're poor old Mario Incandenza you take your competitive strokes where you can find them.

At the end of the day the hatred for all of the work is just part of the work

Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.

That's why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. They're not saying effortless in terms of it didn't seem like the writer spent any work. It simply requires no effort to read it — the same way listening to an incredible storyteller talk out loud requires no effort to pay attention. Whereas when you're bored, you're conscious of how much effort is required to pay attention.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is really freedom. That is being taught how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race - the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

What teachers and the administration in that era never appeared to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

Be a Student of the Game. Like most clichés of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

La vita è come il tennis vince chi serve meglio

El odio que se siente por el trabajo al final del día no es más que una parte del trabajo