Quotes About Effort

That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.

Se não se consegue acabar um trabalho com vinte e sete balas e uma faca, então é porque se está no negócio errado.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Por qué no lo haces y punto, en lugar de hacer todo lo posible por intentarlo?

A blind man has to stumble through a cluttered room. You don't. You use your eyes and pick the easy way.

I'd seen Simmon pursue nearly every woman within three miles of the University with the doomed enthusiasm of a child trying to fly.

Keys were hardly known for their complacency, and this one was near howling for a lock.

Hacía todo lo posible para no pensar en eso. Solo un necio se preocupa por lo que no puede controlar.

It's quite hard. Making pies, I mean. You wouldn't think it, but there's quite a lot to the process. Bread is easy. Soup is easy. Pudding is easy. But pie is complicated. It's something you never realize until you try it for yourself.

It's a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it,

put his back into it, he managed to slide it slowly

It felt wrong giving up without trying everything possible.

and that looking for her would serve about as much purpose as calling for a cat.

talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Old boy, in this life there will always be a certain amount of shit to be shovelled. I really would urge you to buy a long-handled spade and simply get on with it.

True love is hard work. Only the lust comes easy. The point is, you do it together. The

No, the world is not perfect, but at least there are those who are trying. You can find some of them bellying up to the bar in a place called Bulfinche's Pub. Follow the brightest rainbow in the sky. Let it lead you past the ills of the world to a safe haven where the drinks are cold, the food hot, and the company exceptional. The bartenders are pretty darn good, too. Next time the pot of gold calls to you, come in and see us. First drink is on the house.

Decisions about when to start second language instruction in schools should be based on realistic goals and on realistic estimates of how long it takes to achieve them. One or two hours a week will not produce advanced second language speakers, no matter how young they were when they began. Older learners may be able to make better use of the limited time they have for second language instruction.

Nevertheless, Michael Erard's (2012) review of the cases of some of history's most successful learners of multiple languages shows that their unusual talent was also associated with a willingness to work hard at tasks that many would consider too boring or difficult, such as using word cards to study vocabulary.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. —This is how I live, I am thinking.

There are stacks of notebooks that speak of years of aborted efforts, deflated euphoria, a relentless pacing of the boards. We must write, engaging in a myriad of struggles, as if breaking in a willful foal. We must write, but not without consistent effort and a measure of sacrifice: to channel the future, to revisit childhood, and to rein in the follies and horrors of the imagination for a pulsating race of readers.