Quotes About Effort

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

The good Lord made the world so we could earn our joy, Ma said. But it's no guarantee we'll ever be happy.

You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs

Like they say, James: you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

The rottweiler reared up on its back legs, trying

It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to find the damn words to write one.

If you've never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven't tried very hard to succeed. I've never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn't first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

but there was no way he could hold a target

Robert W. Creamer

A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

The truth depends on what we say the truth is. If men are told that the impulse to philander is deeply "natural," essentially irrepressible, then the impulse—for those men, at least— may indeed be so. In Darwin's day, though, men were told something else: that animal impulses are formidable foes but can, with constant and arduous effort, be defeated. This then became, for many men, the truth. Free will was, in an important sense, created by their belief in it.

lo cierto es que en cierto modo quiero que me sigan sacando de quicio, pues no me gustaría llegar tan lejos en la búsqueda del nirvana como para perder este espíritu de lucha. Si la iluminación total significa dejar de hacer juicios de valor de cualquier tipo y dejar de esforzarse por cambiar las cosas, entonces no contéis conmigo2.

The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders. It takes a Herculean effort to control this tendency consciously, and the effort must be repeated on a regular basis.... Honesty of evaluation is simply beyond the reach of most mortals.

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.