Quotes About Effort

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

There's a struggle to it. It's a lot of practice. I get a big thrill out of football, don't get me wrong.

It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did.

It is always thrilling to attempt something new and it feels great when your efforts are awarded positively.

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.

'Hard-working' is what gets the job done. You just see that year after year. The students who thrive are not necessarily the ones who come in with the perfect scores. It's the ones who love what they're doing and go at it vigorously.

I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

Throughout the course of the season everyone is going to have to contribute if you want to achieve something special.

And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.