Quotes About Effort

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts.

We haven't changed enough, Natalie said in a small, pained voice. But - we're trying.

I just wanted everyone to have one," Finn said, grinning crookedly. "It made me feel better to draw them. And, remember, we're from this world, and we're nice. And so's Other-Natalie. So couldn't this be a heart kind of place if people tried a little harder?" Other

comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

Still," the kender said softly, "we have to keep trying and hoping. That's what's important, the trying and the hoping. Maybe that's most important of all.