Quotes About Effort

practice, however, matters aren't so straightforward.

Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.

what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

The effort and expense it took to keep him going were enormous

I had seen the procedure done. Now it was my turn to try.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right--one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. We are used to thinking of doctoring as a solitary, intellectual task. But making medicine go right is less often like making a difficult diagnosis than like making sure everyone washes their hands.

Operations like that lap chole have taught me how easily error can occur, but they've also showed me something else: effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you." .

The screw wasn't budging.

Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.

You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open.

Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe.

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and inventiveness.