Quotes About Effort

When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.

Fancy having to work for a living when you're dead.

To get to his level in under a hundred fifty years illustrated a phenomenal achievement.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

I never hear you practice." He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.

You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come? ...... It's something to do with time.... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time. ...... There's no such thing as better....The second one just fitted in better with their plan.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

To "love thy neighbor as thyself" is a far greater and more complicated obligation, requiring a positive effort to seek the good of others, often in secret, sometimes at great cost, and always without reward. Its most powerful

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.í”

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,