Quotes About Effort

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat. -Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA

Por eso me gustan las arañas. Si al principio no lo consiguen, lo vuelven a intentar. Yo lo intento —dijo con gran pesar—. Pero la culpa es mía, porque hice un trato hace años y ahora jamás seré capaz de amar a nadie de verdad.

Se a princípio não tiver sucesso, tente, tente, tente novamente.

To make it true? Was it for me or for her that he made these thankless efforts to connect us? It was an impossible task.

Le alcanzó al lado de los fogones, donde estaba probando el relleno de carne y diciéndole a la chica que lo que estaba haciendo que tenía demasiadas especies. -¡Pero está bueno!- protestó la chica. -Puede-dijo el señor Baker-, pero hay un mundo de diferencia entre algo bueno y algo perfecto, Lorna.[...]

When everybody comes back and the task is accomplished, it is a success by every measure of the word.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

The more I strive for them the more they utterly elude me

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

As a rule, it takes time for information to get into LTM and time and effort to get it out again.

So we push the boundaries: we stay up far longer than is natural. We try to do too many tasks at the same time. We drive faster than is safe. Most of the time we manage okay. We might even be rewarded and praised for our heroic efforts. But when things go wrong and we fail, then this same behavior is blamed and punished.

As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated for another try.

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Use your work to better yourself. You

How many bites of the apple do you get?

El sacrificio es el precio que se tiene que pagar para alcanzar el éxito. Por desgracia, no todo mundo está dispuesto a hacerlo porque, en general, resulta mucho más sencillo ser una persona común y corriente, y conservar la comodidad, tranquilidad y relativa seguridad de una vida mediocre.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.