Quotes About Effort

In an interview with Charlie Parker, another jazz saxophone legend, Paul Desmond, asked Parker if his fantastic ability came as a result of practice, or from performing a lot. Parker said, I can't see where there's anything fantastic about it at all. I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true…. I used to put in at least from 11 to 15 hours a day…over three or four years.[1]

Experts who accumulated 10,000 hours of practice weren't trying to accumulate those hours; their focus was elsewhere, on the task at hand.

Sometimes things don't fall into place just because you do a good job.

it seems to me marriage is like a big boat. Put the time into maintaining it, and it's something to see. Get lax, and it goes to hell in a handbasket.

Alex, you can break your ass trying to achieve Nirvana Through Inertia, but it won't work. It's like that Woody Allen line—you mellow too much, you ripen and rot.

Era questo che non riuscivo ad afferrare: l'enorme assoluta sproporzione tra la facilità con cui si può uccidere e la grande fatica che si deve fare a morire. Per noi era un'altra sporca giornata di lavoro; per loro la fine di tutto.

Jonathan Little

Who says I'm dying? Did you see the amount of sheer effort it took me to escape the land of the dead? I'm not going back in now!

Strong characters of their sort tend to gravitate together. Pride has a part to play in it, and other emotions too. Neither wishes to fail; each redoubles their effort to impress. Things get done - but not always the right things or not always the things expected. and there's not much you can do to stop it.

Quit worrying. I even brushed my teeth as well." "My God, you have made an effort.

With my own fair hands.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Early to bed, early to rise; Work like hell and fertilize.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell: fertilize

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Being back here—I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if you half-ass it.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

siempre se progresa cuando se trabaja

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

First deserve, and then desire.