Quotes About Effort

You could only to your best, and hope for a strong tail wind to waft you faster to your destination. Until then, you played the game, kept your tongue civil, and spoke favorably of your enemies when either they or their spies might overhear.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

The fact is, life's successes and failures are sporadic, and their causes are difficult to determine. Hard work and luck are behind most successes, though it is hard to say, for any given success, how much of each there has been.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

I spoke about wings You just flew I wondered, I guessed and I tried You just knew

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

Laziness will kill even the strongest warrior.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't make - Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.

was tugging now. But, while

The campaign, on its face, was not designed to win anything.

Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended up, absent any star power, with Trump himself taking the stage as the featured act, angrily insisting to aides that he could outdraw any star.

Here was a perfect example of an essential Trump paradigm: he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about, or simply one whose details he couldn't bring himself to focus on closely. Great! he would say, punctuating every statement with a similar exclamation and regularly making an effort to jump from his chair.

Communication of this message required a coordinated effort. Each person's willingness to talk to Woodward was cross-checked against the willingness of several others to talk to him. This was part of Woodward's standard method of establishing a critical mass of inside sources: he created a kind of in-group, and this also suggested that if you failed to participate, you would not only lose your opportunity to be part of the in-group but lose your place in history

But from the start it also was apparent that the Trump administration could just as easily turn into a country club Republican or a Wall Street Democrat regime. Or just a constant effort to keep Donald Trump happy.

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

In all of human history there may never have been a mind as brilliant as Isaac Newton's—just think what an amazing, unheard-of intellectual effort it took to discover a single law that accounted for the fall of earthly bodies and the movement of the planets! Well, Newton believed in God.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

la nature, la nature entière est un effort illimité, sans trêve ni but

Hay cosas que se pueden hacer, y otras que parecen demasiado difíciles. Con el tiempo, todo parece demasiado difícil; la vida se reduce a eso.

Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.