Quotes About Effort

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

eight, nine kilometers—more than halfway!

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past, on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it.

Institutional racism requires neither conscious effort nor individual intent.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

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?air R. M. Rilke modern ça??n gittikçe daha az çaba talep edece?ini anlam??t?: "?nsanlar her soruna kolay çözüm, hem de kolay?n en kolay?n? ar?yorlar. Ama zor olana tutunmam?z gerekti?i gayet aç?k; her canl? yarat?k zora s?ms?k? tutunur.

Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge

Sauber gemacht wird erst, wenn einem der Dreck Tränen in die Augen treibt!

Remember, no one cares what you want. Focus on delivering more than is expected every time and relieve yourself of the notion that anyone cares about your hopes and dreams. Find a pain point and solve it. It's that simple.

Put a little bit more in, get so much more out".

There is no such thing as a weekend, and you don't live for your holidays

If you are walking the path, the universe is walking the path with you. Often, things will just work out perfectly with little effort. It's like the universe is continuously reorganizing the world you live in so as to send the right people to you at the right time. All we have to do is be set on the path and open enough to receive these gifts.

Michael Hutchinson

At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.

We were learning that all the training and all the caring in the world were not going to solve every problem. This wasn't medical school. We weren't going to ace every exam. Silver-haired professors weren't going to pat us on the head and marvel at our intellectual acumen. We weren't going to win every battle.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose.

then Rawls may have a point. Even effort can't be the basis of moral desert. The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable for a further reason: although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don't really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth.

But beyond fairness and productivity, the liberal argument also gestured toward a third, more potent ideal implicit in the case for markets: Enabling people to compete solely on the basis of effort and talent would bring market outcomes into alignment with merit. In a society where opportunities were truly equal, markets would give people their just deserts.

En una sociedad desigual, quienes aterrizan en la cima quieren creer que su éxito tiene una justificación moral. En una sociedad meritocrática, eso significa que los ganadores deben creer que se han «ganado» el éxito gracias a su propio talento y esfuerzo.