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Quotes About Effort

The task of being awesome is a lot harder than being average and that's why so many people fall short. Don't settle for less than you deserve. Be Awesome Or Be Forgotten!
~ Unknown
H.o.m.e.w.o.r.k = Half of my energy wasted on random knowledge
~ Unknown
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
~ Yann Martel
It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.
~ Dalai Lama
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
~ Thomas Browne
Beat it to death if it succeeds.
~ Ernie Kovacs
The first time is always the hardest
~ Unknown
Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?
~ Unknown
It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.
~ Paula Scher
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
~ Victor Papanek
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
~ Caterina Fake
Every little job counts. Design counts.
~ Michael Bierut
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
~ Robert Edmond Jones
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
~ Seth Godin
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
~ Jonathan Ive
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
~ Donald Fagen
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.
~ Unknown
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
~ Ralph Lauren
Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.
~ Mike Murdock
Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass
~ Bill Self
Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
~ Timothy Keller
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
~ Napoleon Hill