Quotes About Effort

El hombre a quien solo le interesan las relaciones sexuales ocasionales no tiende a invertir tanto esfuerzo.

Displays of love, commitment, and devotion signal a man is willing to channel his time, energy, and effort to her in the long run. Commitment is difficult and costly to fake, because commitment is gauged from repeated signals over time. Men who are interested only in sex are unlikely to invest this much effort.

don't expect a magic formula that'll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.

Hope is a verb with the sleeves rolled up.

Hoped if she kept the dream hidden and frozen She soon would forget that she'd never been chosen. But dreams screams as loud whether thriving or dying And Helen despite herself never stopped trying.

Without the work, there is nothing.

I have learned something about quality research, and also that the emotional prices involved in making "expedient" and "pragmatic" concessions often far exceed the effort needed to stand behind my own convictions.

Walking twenty-five miles, or even running up the stairs and back, suddenly seemed pointless, since without the steps being counted and registered, what use were they?

We're like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other's hands and missing every time

We sweat for our pretensions. It

This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

When it comes time to decide who gets the bottom bunk, I think anyone would agree that there's a lot to be said for doing things the hard way.

Why aren't you stronger? I wanted to ask. I mean, really. Can't you just try harder? Of course, I was drunk too, so what could I say?

I can see him doing the same thing I am, trying to make some sort of connection. We're like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other's hands and missing every time.

La diferencia entre listo e inteligente es bien sencilla. Al listo se le nota el esfuerzo.

than he expects. But it's a purely brute force approach

When it's all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I don't want to look back, however many years from now, and say, 'I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.' I want to, when it's all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, 'I did everything I could do — good or bad.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Sometimes, just trying was a triumph.

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets.