Quotes About Effort

Rockefeller also derived a glandular pleasure from work and never found it cheerless drudgery.

We know that Archbold had studied corruption at the master's feet, but Senior made no effort to disabuse his son.

The partners shouldered unbearable tasks.

Desperately eager to please his parents, he had exhausted himself in trying to scrub sin from his soul.

Paradoxically, it was the philanthropic effort that most frustrated him and most frequently violated his charitable principles.

Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual my become beautiful. (P224)

First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house.

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

Laziness and complacency.

I'd expected four. Five was going to be harder. But more productive.

around at his side and flailing back

Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.

Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed.

Morir en el intento

10. El camino difícil

Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

Three miles at a slow jog, not much better than a fast walk

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. I don't have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun. Those are beyond question. But Scripture describes God as a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him. There are clues you can follow.

was working the cold up

He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.

He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One