Quotes About Effort

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

successful people do: simple things that are easy to do.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

So easy to do. So easy not to do.

What do most people do? When there's a tree in the way they grab that axe, dull or not, and start whaling away at it. And if they

Hoping for "the big break"—the breakthrough, the magic bullet—is not only futile, it's dangerous, because it keeps you from taking the actions you need to create the results you want.

actually seemed more like his butt said it because at the moment, he was on his hands and knees, trying to fit into an elevated, three-and-a-half foot crawlspace that appeared to not have been entered in close

if you're obsessively focused on trying not to make mistakes, it can take some of the soul out of your performance

Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled.

Don't undervalue things that come easy. Sometimes they're the things that would be the hardest for someone else to do and often they are the things that would be almost impossible to do when you try too hard.

The people who seem the most like geniuses are not geniuses. They're just more comfortable with failing. They try more and they try harder than other people, and so they stumble onto more songs. It's pretty simple. People who don't pick up a pencil never write a poem. People who don't pick up a guitar and try every day don't write a whole lot of great songs. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

inspiration is rarely the first step. When it does come out of the blue, it's glorious. But it's much more in your own hands than the divine-intervention-type beliefs we all tend to have about inspiration. Most of the time, inspiration has to be invited.

Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.

And I am trying my best, too. Even if we don't always know what that means or how it will play out. You can get caught up in something that's beyond you, and never understand why.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

I don't know whether or not we'll meet again, Gregor. I could, with an effort, look into the future, but the time's too short. I'd like you to know only this: separation contains as much of a mystery as meeting. In both cases a door opens: in meeting it opens on the future, in separation on the past. It's the same door.

There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done.

Io mettevo macchinalmente un piede dietro l'altro, trascinavo il mio corpo scheletrico ancora tanto pesante. Se avessi potuto sbarazzarmene! Malgrado i miei sforzi per non pensare sentivo che ero diviso in due: io e il mio corpo; e l'odiavo.

The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle anyone faces in the effort to understand death is that it's impossible for the unconscious mind to imagine an end to its own life.