Quotes About Effort

Desvario laborioso e empobrecedor é o de compor vastos livros; o de espraiar por quinhentas páginas uma ideia cuja perfeita exposição oral cabe em poucos minutos.

Lo disuadieron dos consideraciones: la conciencia de que la tarea era interminable, la conciencia de que era inútil.

Human activity has two basic forms: doing ( agere ) and making ( facere ). Artifacts, technical and artistic, are the works of making. We ourselves are the works of doing.

The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat.

There is an entry in Baudelaire's Journal Intime that is fearful in the precision of its cynicism: "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Half, Not Half-Assed

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

Wiem, ?e to si? wydaje ?atwe - powiedzia? Prosiaczek do siebie - ale nie ka?dy to potrafi

Things you get with sacrifice you enjoy it everyday,if you get it for free you throw it away.

Para conseguir el bien que desea, el hombre emprendedor no teme ningún peligro, el trabajador no escatima ningún esfuerzo. Sólo los cobardes y los perezosos no saben ni soportar el mal, ni recobrar el bien que se limitan a desear.

Il lavoro è pesante, ma stare lì a far niente guardando qualcuno che lavora è ancora più pesante, soprattutto se è vecchio

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.

Don't let your talents get rotten like fruits and vegetables that don't sell in the market! -Aaron Jhinkoo

Making efforts was not exactly my forte. I always had great ideas, of course. I would have been perfect for a think tank. Think tanks are a thing, right? Organizations where people sit around and come up with solutions to the world's problems? I would have been a shoo-in for one of those. However, if do-tanks are also a thing—as in, organizations that actually do shit—then you would have had to count me out. On account of, well, laziness.

never stop trying and never try stopping

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.