Quotes About Effort

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.

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. 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.

Malcolm Gladwell

far in Outliers, we've seen that extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about

The people at the top don't just work harder. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell

If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth every day for the rest of your life for $100,000 a year, which would you take? I'm guessing the former, because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance

there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

that extra practice under his belt, he really is better, so he's the one more likely to make it to

Malcolm Gladwell

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. They jumped at the chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time

con trabajo duro, planificación sabia e independencia o cooperación con un pequeño grupo, la recompensa es sólo cuestión de tiempo».

because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work

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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and oppor­tunities

they have to overcome a hurdle, they'll overcome it better when you force them to think a little harder.

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy. (Chinese proverb)