Quotes About Effort

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. —STEPHEN KING

I'm not the smartest guy, but I can outwork you. It's the one thing I can control.

What this tells us is that children who are outperformed may give up rather than fight to improve, and those who do win may not feel compelled to keep trying as hard if even the losers get praise and a trophy.

Hard work is good for the soul," she would say. "And it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself, because you don't have time.

The whirling wheels, that help us on our way, A lesson to the children, too, will say: "Go on! there's work awaiting you to-day; The whole world moves apace, you must not stay.

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

Any game has a limited number of winners and a potentially unlimited number of losers.

Finishing something is nearly always a herculean effort; bringing a job to completion requires resolve. People would be surprised to learn that most of the stuff out in the world is only a small percentage of what could have been accomplished.

The money is as good as you are.

There are no lazy trillionaires.

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

I tried so hard and got so far. But in the end, it doesnt even matter

Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

the good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in difficult to master. It's repetitive. It does not open the floodgates of revelation, as I am you've been led to expect.

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment

did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run.

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

Trying hard and being a good person didn't always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf.

I don't know why I'm always screwing up at everything, even when I try so hard, all the time, not to. I'd do better if I could, I really would. But I don't know how. There are a lot of things I don't know.