Quotes About Effort

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort

No puedes tener suerte cuando otra persona tiene habilidad.

You can't have luck when someone else has skills

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modern ink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. You push and you ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is my heart that matches my mind?

La holgazanería podrá parecer atractiva, pero la satisfacción sólo la da el trabajo.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

No moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.

These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.

Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.

Without the most humble and sedulous grappling with the inner defects there can never be any real mastery—and the most beautiful efforts will come to nought.

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

Mighty dissonances, in the superhuman effort to dissolve the plexus of the medium.

I can write above the melee, as it were, but I don't like the forced effort. It doesn't ring the way I want it to. I get off-key.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Tout l'effort de l'esprit ne parvient pas à recréer cette émotion de la surprise qui ajoute au charme de l'objet une étrangeté ravissante. Le beauté du monde extérieur reste la même, mais la virginité du regard s'est perdue.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Control what you can control.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

thirty-five words long, sometimes longer.

In addition to doing your own personal best, you must analyze the situation for risks that are beyond your control.

If it isn't easy, people won't do it.