Quotes About Effort

Those who don't plant spend their lives plowing the land.

To keep winning, you have to keep training."

They're not doing much for themselves. I'm sure they'd rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can't. They're not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging. The alternative is suicide- and we are too fearful for that.

anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

?imdi anl?yor musun mutluluk neden senden kaç?yor? Mutluluk, u?runda çal???lmas?n? gerektirir; mutluluk gökten ya?maz, kazan?l?r. Oysa sen mutlulu?u yaln?zca yalay?p yutmak istiyorsun; bu yüzden senden kaç?yor o da; senin kendisini kemirmeni, yutman? istemiyor.

Bir ?eyin ters gitmesi kötü de?ildir, sadece hiçbir ?eyi denememi? olmak kötüdür.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.

all variants of voluntary effort—cognitive, emotional, or physical—draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy.

I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort—no more than retaining two or three digits.

Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used. The analogy goes deep. Your use of electricity depends on what you choose to do, whether to light a room or toast a piece of bread. When you turn on a bulb or a toaster, it draws the energy it needs but no more. Similarly, we decide what to do, but we have limited control over the effort of doing it.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.... This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.

Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.

people are first depleted by a task in which they eat virtuous foods such as radishes and celery while resisting the temptation to indulge in chocolate and rich cookies. Later, these people will give up earlier than normal when faced with a difficult cognitive task.

The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

Acquiring expertise in chess is harder and slower than learning to read because there are many more letters in the "alphabet" of chess and because the "words" consist of many letters. After thousands of hours of practice, however, chess masters are able to read a chess situation at a glance.