Quotes About Effort

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

dug itself into the

In a heated debate, the novice at working with mental models will have to make an effort to identify the assumptions he is making and why. Often the beginner's efforts in a discipline are characterized by time displacement: only after the debate, does one see one's assumptions clearly and distinguish them from the "data" and reasoning upon which they are based.

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If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

But if you can take a bit of an advice from an old fool like me, save your best efforts for the living, because one day they'll be dead, too, and you'll end up feeling guilty for neglecting them while they were alive. That's the paradox. Damned if you do and double-damned if you don't.

Art is long, life is short', goes the old adage, and arranging a limited number of paintings to represent the numerous developments and styles of Western art is by all standards a Herculean task.

Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don't have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won't pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome.

Practice doesn't make perfect," he used to say. "Perfect practice does.

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

you create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed.

That McCarthy, he thought, is a damn good shop foreman. He has the knack of needling a man, getting him to put out his best efforts, to do his utmost in spite of himself. He's a natural leader; he almost inspired me, for a moment, there.

En la vida real- pensaba Rick-, no hay campanillas mágicas como ésas para hacer que el enemigo desaparezxa sin el menor esfuerzo. una lástima.

Morning, noon & bloody night, Seven sodding days a week, I slave at filthy WORK, that might Be done by any book-drunk freak. This goes on until I kick the bucket. FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT

What is worth having is worth working for.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.