Quotes About Effort

If you never fail, either you're really lucky or you haven't shipped anything.

Deadlines? Surely you know someone who is late all the time. Someone who can't deliver anything of value unless they've stalled so much they've created an urgency, an emergency that requires mind-blowing effort and adrenaline to deliver. This is not efficient or reliable behavior, and yet they persist. The reason is simple: they can't push through the common fear of completion unless they can create a greater fear of total failure.

the stupid thing to do is to start, give it your best shot, waste a lot of time and money, and quit right in the middle of the Dip.

Ten times as much polishing is definitely not ten times as good. Whether you're polishing a piece of furniture or an idea, the benefits diminish quickly. The polishing turns into stalling.

You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Emotional labor is the task of doing important work, even when it isn't easy. Emotional

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

while luck may be more appealing than effort, you don't get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.

They don't understand that Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

We made the "doing" easier, which is precisely why we need to outsource that part of our job and focus all our energy onto the hard work of making change happen.

If It Is Worth Doing, There's Probably a Dip

Practicing how to throw. Getting good at throwing. If you get good enough at throwing, the catching takes care of itself.

It's always hard part that makes value

Pero el reto está en centrarse en el trabajo, no en el miedo que te causa hacerlo.

You are not your résumé. You are your work.

The difference between a successful artist and a failed one happens after the idea is hatched. The difference is the race to completion. Did you finish?

The person who leans forward the most wins the race.

If you bring your best self to the world, your best work, and the world doesn't receive it, it's entirely possible that your marketing sucked.

The job is not the work.

Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we're done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure.

We're humans. Our work isn't us. As humans, we can choose to do the work, and we can choose to improve our work.

Talent is something we're born with: it's in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts. But skill? Skill is earned. It's learned and practiced and hard-won. It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.