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Quotes About Effort

mainly by increasing tolerance for perceived effort and by reducing the amount of effort that is perceived at any given intensity of exercise.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
In reality, the scenario I've just described could never happen. Perceived effort is essentially the body's resistance to the mind's will. The fitter an athlete becomes, the less resistance the body puts up. Therefore increased physical capacity is always felt.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Perceived effort actually has two layers. The first layer is how the athlete feels. The second layer is how the athlete feels about how she feels. The first layer is strictly physiological, whereas the second is emotional, or affective.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
discovered that world-class athletes in the full suite of endurance sports share a common training approach. Specifically, they spend about 80 percent of their total training time at low intensity and the other 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Better athletes don't have to exert as much mental effort to control their sport-specific movements, so their movements are freer.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. But nothing in the world can get you more time.
~ Unknown
No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.
~ Matt Groening
Si vas a hacer trampa, hazla con todas tus fuerzas
~ Matt Groening
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson
~ Matt Groening
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
~ Matt Groening
Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.
~ Matt Haig
Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.
~ Matt Haig
And hope was often irrational. It made no sense. ... The other thing about hope was that it took effort...
~ Matt Haig
It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it. A Homo sapiens was a primitive hunter who had woken each day with the knowledge he could kill.
~ Matt Haig
And hope was often irrational. It made no sense. If it had made sense, it would have been called, well, sense. The other thing about hope was that it took effort, and I had never been used to effort.
~ Matt Haig
Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort. But the flipside was that it was precarious. It could be equally easy to fall and look like a devil or a villain, or just an arse.
~ Matt Haig
It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it. A Homo sapiens was a primitive hunter who had woken each day with the knowledge he could kill. And now, the equivalent knowledge was only that he would wake up and buy something.
~ Matt Haig
She had to try harder. She had to want the life she always thought she didn't. Because just as this library was a part of her, so too were all the other lives. She might not have felt everything she had felt in those lives, but she had the capability.
~ Matt Haig
It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it. A Homo sapiens was a primitive hunter who had woken each day with the knowledge he could kill. And now, the equivalent knowledge was only that he would wake up each day and buy something.
~ Matt Haig
Dünya'da yaÅŸarken bir yere varmak için epey zaman harcamak zorundas?n?z, yollar, raylar, kariyerler, iliÅŸkiler, her ÅŸeyde böyle bu." Sf. 7
~ Matt Haig
M-a speriat cat de aproape e violenta de suprafata civilizata a fiintei umane. In violenta in sine ma ingrijora, ci cantitatea de efort pe care o depuneau pentru a o ascunde. Un homo sapiens fusese un vanator primitiv care se desteptase in fiecare zi cunoscand faptul car ar putea ucide.
~ Matt Haig
It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it.
~ Matt Haig
This, it seemed, was power. The power of fame. Like those pop icons she had seen on social media, who could say a single word and get a million likes and shares. Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort.
~ Matt Haig