Quotes About Effort

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.

Michael Schrage is right: "A collaboration of incompetents, no matter how diligent or well-meaning, cannot be successful.

Thinking is very hard work. And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Let me phrase it like this—do you want to live in the kitchen for the next four days, sweating your ass off while you make a meal it will take twenty minutes to eat? Do you want to attack a pile of dishes for three hours afterward? Do you want to spend a week eating old turkey and cranberry sauce because

That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.

Ultimately, my goal in life is to arrive at the finish line without having regrets. I don't want to reflect on my time on this earth and beat myself up for not having made an effort, for not pushing myself, for allowing small obstacles or personal pride to stand in my way. I don't want to be there on my deathbed wondering what was so damn hard about riding a bike in the first place.

In my mother's mind, all I'd achieved was due to her, and not my own efforts.

No importa cuántos fracasos puede que tenga en el futuro. Lo único que importa es que siga avanzando. El único fracaso real es el dejar de intentarlo.

If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

Try and fail and try again.

You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.

see it—but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough? Her

Kau melakukan yang terbaik yang kau bisa. Itu yang dilakukan tiap ibu.

I guess you gotta try the rest before you settle down with the best.

Trebuie s? fie un fel de uÈ™urare în faptul de a-È›i fi ajuns scopurile.E ca un soi de sprint în care tocmai forÈ›ezi, dup? care treci linia de sosire È™i-È›i tragi sufletul-ai reuÈ™it!De fapt, niciodat? nu reuÈ™eÈ™ti-întotdeauna trebuie s-o iei de la cap?t.

I like work. it fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours

We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours.  I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are, and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature.