Quotes About Effort

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

I want to do a good job. I'm just learning and I just want to have fun with it.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.