Quotes About Effort

Easy is tasteless and bland

My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That's all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with all your soul.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort." —The Dalai Lama

The way got harder. One day they made only a kilometer.

Live for the future. A cosmic history read out of signs so subtle and mathematical that only the effort of a huge transtemporal group of powerful minds could ever have teased it out; but then those who came later could be given the whole story, with its unexplored edges there to take off into.

Pronto aprendimos a llevar varios problemas a la vez: un problema difícil que deba ser visitado y revisitado una vez tras otra a lo largo de muchos meses o años antes de que se abra la cáscara, con la esperanza de una gran ganancia; y otros problemas mucho más fáciles, con ganancias más inmediatas.

You just have to do the best you can in the situation you are in.'27

an overexertion to which one is driven by inner content is easy to bear.

I am like the salmon- i have to swim against the current- i have to.

I am like the salmon- i have to go against the stream- i have to.

Ne iÅŸti bu! Bir beygir gibi, ha babam, kendimi zorlam??, gece gündüz, gözlerim önüme ak?ncaya kadar okumuÅŸ, çal??m??, beynimdeki zekay? açl?klara ak?tm??t?m!

Was I lazy? Had I not applied for situations, attended lectures, written articles, and worked day and night like a man possessed? Had I not lived like a miser, eaten bread and milk when I had plenty, bread alone when I had little, and starved when I had nothing? Did I live in an hotel? Had I a suite of rooms on the first floor?

don't spend your time chasing after an inspiration that once chanced your way. It is as unrecoverable as yesterday, as the joys of childhood, as first love. Bend your efforts to creating a new and fresh inspiration for today. There is no reason to suppose that it will be less good than yesterday's. It may not be as brilliant. But you have the advantage of possessing it today.

I'm finding it takes too much energy to do the things that people do to pass for competent adults.

She remember her granny telling her, 'Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work.

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.

Nothing good ever came easy." (Garreth)

And they just let you enter after their effort? What should they have done, Mr MacRieve? I know exactly what I would have done. I know exactly how I would have retaliated.

She remembered her granny telling her, "Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work." Hell, Saroya could take a lesson from Granny Peirce!

I'll do my best.

Bo felt sorry for Jiminy that she had to expend so much effort to ask a simple question. What a difficult way to go through life. He had his challenges, but most of them felt imposed from the outside, not created within.