Quotes About Effort

His experiments proved that the best way to break a habit is to form a clear mental image of the desired end result, and to practice without effort towards reaching that goal. Dunlap found that either "positive practice" (refraining from the habit) or "negative practice" (performing the habit consciously and voluntarily) would have beneficial effect provided the desired end result was kept constantly in mind.

It has been amply demonstrated that attempting to use effort or willpower to change beliefs or to cure bad habits has an adverse, rather than a beneficial, effect.

experiments proved that the best way to break a habit is to form a clear mental image of the desired end result, and to practice without effort toward reaching that goal.

If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not.

When you do see a thing clearly in your mind, the creative Success Mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort, or "willpower.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

To fly we have to have resistance.

His life was always like this moment -- almost brilliant, almost clever, almost and always not quite.

For just someone that want success without experiencing something similar, 100% of those, are always ignorant and end up in very tight spot. So it is a good idea to work for somebody then you'll learn the basics etc.

for every one to reach the mountain top of his or her desire its really a hustle and hard work

Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that.

Ljudi nisu glupi da ne bi vidjeli kako je teško pomiriti svijet i sebe, ni dovoljno pametni da to ne pokušavaju...

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.

A great business of body and heart seemed to join these women, and only a few questions separated them: Did each understand the rules of womanhood? Did she try to follow them? How hard did she try, and what did it cost her?

The four columns of success are motivation, education, actions and relations

Tennis, as we know, was not my sport. Sport, in fact, was not my sport.

What annoys me most is that it takes no effort to be born beautiful, no hard work, no mental agility, no strength of character. Just dumb luck. And yet it's a universal currency, often mistaken for moral superiority.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn't do it anymore. There wasn't much time.

She saw, briefly, the way the world rarely stopped to salute you or admonish you, regardless of what you had or had not accomplished.

It's hard, he told her, when everyone wants it so much but you're the one who has to do it.

Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.