Quotes About Effort

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.

Did he ever--try?' Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.' What's that mean?' Means he tried.' Of course. The ring was not a neutral tool. It judged its wearer: Aaron Doily flew drunkenly, and Dylan flew like a coward, only when it didn't matter, at the Windles' pond. So if had attuned to Robert Woolfolk's chaos. Don't tell me,' said Dylan. 'He flew sideways.' Mingus left it vague. He'd always made it his habit to protect their honor against one another--Dylan, Arthur, Robert. To say nothing.

All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.

I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

We spent our lives making livings.

We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either, but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.

But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.

Lui scrisse: Io non so come vivere Neanch'io, ma sto tentando. Non so come tentare

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.

Am facut eforturi sa te fac sa apari ca o persoana cu mai putina neliniste, asa cum mi-ai comandat sa fac in atatea ocazii. Asta e dificil de realizat, pentru ca in realitate tu esti o persoana cu foarte multa neliniste. Poate ar trebui sa folosesti droguri.

Die Ohnmacht des Einzelnen ist der Grund, aus dem alle es versuchen muessen

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

while the whole operation

This made me reflect how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him

it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

Nosotros los padres no pudimos hacerlo mejor. Con lo que sabíamos, con lo que teníamos, quisimos, probamos, intentamos... algunas cosas nos salieron bien y otras no.

Los sueños se van desechando y los que quedan se dejan para después. Si uno no se pone en la tarea de realizarlos, el castillo se desmorona sin siquiera haberlo construido.

Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others.