Quotes About Effort

How strange it was! He wanted to remember these things very badly; he knew he did, but he could never retain them; in spite of himself they no sooner fell upon his mind than they fell off it again, he had such a dreadful memory; whereas, if anyone played him a piece of music and told him where it came from, he never forgot that, though he made no effort to retain it, and was not even conscious of trying to remember it at all. His mind must be badly formed and he was no good.

I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

It is a foolish thing well done.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.