Quotes About Effort

I pledge allegiance to perspiration …

Quand'è che quello spirito ha cominciato a cambiare? Quando hanno cominciato a cambiare loro? O hanno semplicemente smesso di essere come avrebbero voluto essere, E sono tornate a essere come sono? A che punto il gioco dell'invenzione si è trasformato in sforzo di costruzione, impegno dopo impegno, vincolo dopo vincolo? Quand'è che la leggerezza si è trasformata in peso?

For endless minutes he crawled after them wondering why the hell he was working his ass off to save humanity. Humanity? Weren't most people like those two fools ahead? Brainless cattle. That's whose future he was trying to save? Evolution, or just a coincidence, might have brought forth a couple of people who might be worth the effort but most were just a waste of space.

Don't let perfection get in the way of your success.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Anything in life worth having is worth working for!

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

Down these mean crates a man must dig." page 41.

But all he could really do was his best, each moment. That was what mattered most—even more than the final outcome. Because the final outcome wasn't up to him alone.

It wasn't that she couldn't do the work. She just didn't like doing it.

But if the messiness makes me feel like this, then it's worth it, right?

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

Talk is cheap, exploration and discovery is hard

You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream.

I know better; the reward for work well done is the work itself.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

People see you for 90 minutes a week, they don't see the all the effort and time that goes into the weekend.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

To make any endeavor successful, you have to put that time and energy into something and work long hard days. Whether it's on the weekends or at night. You have to be constantly looking to improve things.

I literally practiced every day except on the weekends.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.