Quotes About Effort

Was du schaffst überdauert die Zeit.

Futility is in the eye of the beholder.

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

They warn that any effort to put two objects in the same place at the same time will have catastrophic consequences. When you think about it, a lot of fundamental physics is the solemn statement of the absurdly obvious. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.

guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

What sucks the worst is…this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

walking nowhere on a treadmill seemed rather pointless

Jason had tried to reach their father through the construction company that employed him, but he'd learned nothing concrete.

the best instructional programs help students master a subject by encouraging attentiveness, demanding hard work, and reinforcing learned skills through repetition.

At the end, in Harry's handiwork, there's nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes – it's a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learning to love, Harry liked to say, is really about learning to live. Perhaps everyday affection seems a small facet of love. Perhaps, though, it is the modest, steady responses that see us through day after day, that stretch into a life of close and loving relationships.

did you know that way back in the 1980s some scientists proposed an ambitious effort called the Human Protein Project to map all human proteins? It never happened. Instead, the NIH backed the Human Genome Project for one big reason: Proteins were tough to study, while genes were far easier to sequence. The tools dictate the science.

A lazy brain does no one any good.

É engraçado como os nossos desejos desaparecem quando são demasiado fáceis de alcançar.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.