Quotes About Effort

But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are that simple. These are stories, instead, about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society. Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.

You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.

Working really hard is what successful people do

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Underdog strategies are hard.

is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.

Achievement is talent plus preparation.

Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.

Somewhere in retirement, Haywood Hansell saw that announcement in the newspaper, and I'm sure he wondered why he didn't get an award as well for the effort he put toward fighting a war with as few civilian casualties as possible. But we don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions, do we? To the victor go the spoils.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.

Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed." 10.