Quotes About Effort

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

Just try to play hard to win games and to be versatile. And also be a great teammate. I'm not faking anything I'm doing out here. I'm being myself. I'm not faking anything.

If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have to put forth a little more effort to get the song out.

DoÄŸrular, doÄŸru haline gelirler ve önemli olan da onlar? buna ulaÅŸt?ran yoldur, buna ulaÅŸmak için kendi üzerinde ve baÅŸkalar?yla birlikte yap?lan çal??mad?r. Bu çal??ma olmadan, bir doÄŸru ancak doÄŸru bir hata olabilir.

Not everything we write will be great. That's natural.

I enjoy my work; sorry if that bothers you.

I had just forgotten, somehow, that life was struggle, and the only reward was to be allowed to live a little longer and struggle harder.

As an assistant coach at Picayune High School, he helped a team that had gone 0–10 the year before…to go 0–10 again. "With all my expertise in coaching," he wrote, "we came close to winning a game.

it out of his throat, wiped at the grime

Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected.

But it works that way if it works.

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

If you have talent and energy, you're king. If you have only energy and no talent, you're still a prince. But if you have talent and no energy, you're a pauper.

Proust said, we all end up doing the thing we're second best at.

Cultivating awareness takes effort. Changing the habits of inattention and distraction we have developed over a lifetime is hard work.

We stood silent. After a moment I said, Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses. Who says? Me. Because why? Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with the fence, bent over like Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima. It was the greatest show of common effort we could remember in our neighborhood, all those lawyers, doctors, and mortgage bankers locked arm in arm in the trench, with our mothers bringing out orange Kool-Aid, and for a moment our century was noble again.

Though history is being made today, we all need to try and comprehend the years of effort by many people involved in the eventual lunar landing.

Mindfulness and mental effort would then be understood as a way of using attention to control brain state by means of the Quantum Zeno Effect.

This statement was tremendously gratifying because it stated, from a physicist's perspective, what seemed to me the essential core of all my OCD work: that effort itself is the key to altering one's brain function. Stapp's insight was that quantum theory naturally allows for the direct influence of mental effort on the function of the brain. It thus makes mental effort and its effect on attention a primary causal agent.