Quotes About Effort

Thanks, Alice," Grant said, and to Lucas, "I don't like you, and I suspect you don't like me, but try to be fair. Don't stick yourself into this campaign. Don't sabotage me." "I'm not trying—" "Whether you're trying or not, that's the effect," Grant said. "Wait a week or ten days, let the election take place, then do your worst. But give me a chance. I've worked very hard for it.

He spent more time laying pipe than laying tile, if you catch my drift.

Scratching their fingernails on blackboards of futility.

people who were working that day, the ten-of-twelve.

you'll get back to your trucks. Some of those people, you

This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.

You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.

I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.

It's why attractive people don't have to work as hard in school.

I'll do my best," Wilson said. "Your best got you stationed on the Clarke," Abumwe said. "Do better than that.

There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I

The three rules of writing: 1. It's Work. 2. It's Work. 3. Surprise! It's Work.

Or, to put it more succinctly: Writing professionally is a business. If you want to write professionally, you have to approach writing in a professional manner—which is to say, you have to approach it with the intent of actually making money doing it. This means: One: It takes work. Lots and lots and lots of work. Two: Sometimes, work sucks. Three: But you do it anyway because that's your job. The previous three rules, incidentally, work

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn't the same thing as easy.

he wasn't much of a natural in anything. This was something he sensed early and hid with overcompensation, which is why so many of his training squad members thought he was an asshole.

That's why you have a partner," Vann said. "So you can vent at me. Afterward. Now, come on. Let's get back to work." "Where to now?" "I want to get a better look at that hotel room," Vann said, and sucked on her cigarette. "Trinh hustled us through it pretty quickly. I'm ready for a slow dance.

I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.

Because...because how can I expect the world to be a better place if I ain't gonna try real hard to make it better?

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.