Quotes About Effort

I can give it my all and make plays and dominate my side of the field, but it takes all 11 guys with a certain thought process that we're going to go out there, and we're going to win.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.

Yeah, I could get an internet page and maybe get a thousand downloads of new songs but it's a lot of work. I'm 57 now, I really feel like I've got the T-shirt. I just like performing. It's instant. I go off, I do the show, it's over. I like that.

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

all men are united in one common effort to survive on this earth. All men share a common human necessity, a common human aim. All men are equally entitled to life, and therefore to the necessities of life.

I guess you don't study Latin and Greek if you don't like putting in the hours.

Physical work not only brings a sense of emotional well-being when we see the positive results of our efforts, but also makes us feel more in control of our surroundings and ultimately helps us to build resilience to mental illness, such as depression.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

I can only strive for what is important

I am worried about this, but there's nothing to do but try.

That one of history's greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

We had reached the foot of Sable's hill. Howell wrestled his car up the climbing curves. The tires shuddered and screeched like lost souls under punishment.

Anyone can make an athlete tired, but not everyone can make that athlete faster.

The clear implication was that the best advice for young writers and aspiring professors is: Write every day. Use your self-control to form a daily habit, and you'll produce more with less effort in the long run.

The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called "binge writers" fared far less well, and many had had their careers cut short. The clear implication was that the best advice for young writers and aspiring professors is: Write every day. Use your self-control to form a daily habit, and you'll produce more with less effort in the long run.

poema de Chuang-Tzu, escrito séculos antes de Cristo: "Eu sei que não terei sucesso. Tentar forçar os resultados somente aumentaria a confusão. Não será melhor desistir e parar de me esforçar? Mas, se eu não me esforçar, quem o fará?".

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness

You don't learn how to win by losing on purpose.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.