Quotes About Effort

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas