Quotes About Effort

Obviously, it requires effort to use all your potentialities to the best of your ability, to stretch your horizon, to grasp every opportunity as it comes, but it is certainly more interesting than holding off timidly, afraid to take a chance, afraid to fail.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies.

Me encontraba entre los que se esforzaban dia y noche, que conseguían magníficos resultados, que eran tratados incluso con simpatía y aprecio, pero que jamás lucirían con la actitud adecuada la alta calidad de esos estudios. Siempre tendría miedo: miedo de decir la frase equivocada, de usar un tono excesivo, de ir vestida de forma inadecuada, de revelar sentimientos mezquinos, de no tener pensamientos interesantes

In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.

Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.

So? Better to give up? No, the master answers, you don't have to throw everything away: it's arduous to speak truthfully, but you do your best.

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

Alors elle prit un ton agressif comme pour me signifier que mon éventuelle noyade ne serait pas à lui imputer à elle, qui avait fait tout ce qu'il fallait pour l'éviter, mais entièrement à mon manque de mémoire.

Disse que vivíamos num país provincianíssimo, onde toda ocasião era boa para se lamentar, mas enquanto isso ninguém arregaçava as mangas e reorganizava as coisas tentando fazê-las funcionar.

Se uno non prova, non cambia niente

I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

qui noi lavoratori non siamo stati mai neanche dentro le zone salariali, stiamo fuori da tutte le regole, stiamo sotto zero. Perciò è una bestemmia dire: lasciatemi in pace, io ho i miei problemi e mi voglio fare i fatti miei. Ognuno nel posto che gli è toccato, deve fare quello che può.

If I'd known that to get a diploma and a degree Al you needed to have was free time, to be shut up in a place without worrying about earning a living, and, with discipline, learning by heart pages and page of some books, I would have done it before," he said once, in a teasing tone.

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

laborious filters of Italian pronunciation

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously. An enemy may simply be someone who, out of a sort of emotional exhaustion, has avoided the effort, the complexity, the pleasure - all the ambiguities of friendship.

If you don't try, nothing ever changes.

Tengo vocación de pobre", decía como excusa para su ruina progresiva. Los días del hombre le parecían de una brevedad insoportable para dedicarlos al esfuerzo del dinero.

Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel.

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