Quotes About Effort

The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.

Mi papá te hubiera puesto a hacer cien lagartijas por todo este gimoteo. -No si antes me rompiera mis malditas costillas, amiga. Me siento como Rihanna tras una noche de pasión.

I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.

Cheaters never prosper, we tell ourselves. But the ape in us knows it's not true. Clumsy, untutored, cheats never prosper. They are discovered and suffer the consequences [...]But what we apes despise is the clumsiness of their effort, the ineptness, the gaucherie. The ape in us does not despise the cheating itself; [...]

When you play each point as it comes, or play each delivery on its own merits, you are doing just that: playing. But when the value of each point or delivery becomes instrumental, what you are doing is work.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won't come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

When people feel that their contributions are unappreciated, they will stop trying. And when that happens, innovation dies.

A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it...The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

I swam my brains out.

Perfection in an asana is achieved when the effort to achieve it becomes effortless, and the infinite being within is reached.

The difference between success and failure is effort.

Nothing in life worth doing is easy

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.