Quotes About Effort

faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends

It should puzzle us more than it does that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.

Edward Slingerland

work in social psychology has made it clear that cognitive control is a limited resource. When a teacher taps on a dozing student's desk and says: "Pay attention!" it turns out that this is not a metaphor: attention is costly, and if it is "spent" on one task there is less available to spend on another. This phenomenon is known as "ego depletion". ... The moral? Effort is effort, mental or physical.

Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.

I just know about sweat and frustration. And that what I once thought was impossible somehow doesn't always stay that way permanently. One day it's suddenly easy and accessible, and mostly because I've stopped struggling against it. I've just accepted where I am, keep showing up, and then the change just happens.

At any given time, we are all doing the best we can. The problem is, our best often isn't good enough for us. We then punish ourselves, denying ourselves peace because we feel we don't deserve it. A sad situation remedied when we finally accept, we are doing the best we can.

Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern's words, he suddenly realized. Stern's very own words spoken to him long ago, whispered now in the shadows in another time and place altogether. Strange, he thought. Time is.

Life is the game that must be played

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

forward. To the contrary, it's often paved with many

Each outcome of life is the egg of one's efforts that one may eat or gamble.

Every creation is straightforward and easier than maintaining it.

One cannot earn a degree, only with a study without an exam; similarly, to fall in love may not fragrance true love if one fails to carry on that, in every season and situation. Indeed, then that qualifies love.

Pleasure in whatever subject shows the willingness and accuracy, not perfection since human is incapable of that.

The uttermost hard way of the universe is to make yourself the best human.

Keajaiban akan terjadi jika kau terus mencoba dan berusaha. (Emporio Ivankov - One Piece)

Who comes first, grinds first.

We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love?

Affectionately, Krishna assures Arjuna that no attempt to improve his spiritual condition could be a wasted effort. Even looking ahead to the next life, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. He will be reborn in a household suitable for taking up his quest where he left off. In his next life, he will feel drawn to the spiritual goal once again, and he will have a head start.

But for you, work is play. Not to work would be work.