Quotes About Effort

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

It just took so much effort to get anything done without machinery, particularly since nobody really knew how to do a lot of the necessary things by hand. There were descriptions in books, but they always turned out to be maddeningly incomplete and/or no substitute for the knowledge experience built into your muscles and nerves.

Work hard, make money, have fun.

Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.

and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right in life,' he tells his duck of a wife, 'unless it's forced out.

it feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the sun and after that you're dragged down into the darkness again

which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of lunacy, you spend more energy getting the damn things out than they give you when you eat.

Su vida había sido una sucesión de actos de voluntad, pero a veces flaqueaba y se hundía

the deepest goal of spirituality is freedom from the illusion of the self—and to seek such freedom, as though it were a future state to be attained through effort, is to reinforce the chains of one's apparent bondage in each moment.

Willpower is itself a biological phenomenon. You can change your life, and yourself, through effort and discipline—but you have whatever capacity for effort and discipline you have in this moment, and not a scintilla more (or less). You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.

And those of us who work hard and follow the rules would not "deserve" our success in any deep sense.

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it—when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill—the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.

We set the table, but no one ate.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.