Quotes About Effort

I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get from my classroom to the office. He managed it for sixteen years. He must have had more mental discipline than me. Or maybe it wasn't that much of an effort to pretend that I didn't exist.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.