Quotes About Effort

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, "I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it." —Thomas Powers

No: what I have tried to remember, and occasionally achieved, is that sense of handing myself over to the moment I was in, trusting that what had brought me there would carry me through, allowing things to transpire not with effort, but with something like ease, even grace.

Uelskede tror, at de skal købe sig til velbefindende med anstrengelser og disciplin.

FBI investigations alone will never take corruption out of politics. They take too much effort, and they attack the problem serially, one target at a time.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.

When it comes to our educational systems, perhaps the most important question that we can ask is this: What is the purpose of education? Is it to impart knowledge and facts or is it to nurture curiosity, effortful problem solving, and the capacity for lifelong learning?

Fixed mind-sets cause people to be overconcerned with seeking validation, such as grades, titles, or social recognition. Conversely, those favoring a growth mind-set believe that intelligence and abilities can be grown through effort, and tend to view failures or setbacks as opportunities for growth. They have a desire to constantly challenge and stretch themselves.

Praising ability alone reduces persistence, while praising effort or the processes a person goes through to learn leads to growth mind-set behaviors. Dweck has found this to apply regardless of age.

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

People put a lot less effort into picking apart evidence that confirms what they already believe.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you

down had started to climb the walls.

?nsan?n varla?ma hamlesinden ebedilik hayali ve ne?esi do?ar. Bu özleyi? bütün cesaretini imkandan almaktad?r. ?nsan mümkün olmayan ?eyi istemek için kendini yormaz ve paralamaz.

There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

sort of like what Mom says marriage is like. She says it's like a job where you know the end product is worthwhile but sometimes you hate getting up early for it every day.