Quotes About Effort

No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people

It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard—at the wrong things.

No es suficiente con pedir a los traabajadores que se esfuercen más. Nuestros problemas actuales están provocados por esforzarnos demasiado en las cosas equivocadas

Why does stuffing one envelope at a time get the job done faster even though it seems like it would be slower? Because our intuition doesn't take into account the extra time required to sort, stack, and move around the large piles of half-complete envelopes when it's done the other way.

The stories in the magazines are lies: hard work and perseverance don't lead to success.

Energy invested in success theater is energy that could have been used to help build a sustainable business.

I've come to believe that learning is the essential unit of progress for startups. The effort that is not absolutely necessary for learning what customers want can be eliminated. I call this validated learning because it is always demonstrated by positive improvements in the startup's core metrics.

Las historias de las revistas son mentira: el trabajo duro y la perseverancia no llevan al éxito.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen" - Michael Jordan

It's not easy, but it's simple.

And in the meantime we have to be like a duck." "A duck?" I asked. "Calm on the surface but paddling like crazy where nobody can see it.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . .

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of what we call history.

Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es. (Actions speak louder than words.)

It seems to me there is always pain—or at least discomfort—involved in getting really good at something.

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up.

It was like opening a sealed jar with a tight lid. You have to apply heat, push your breasts aside, and lean your weight into it, wondering the whole time if it's stuck for good, until suddenly there's movement, the suction releases, and the lid comes off in your hand.

Hope is easy, but it catches no prey.

The only failure is not to try, and I've never stopped trying.

Foxleap, no! Not now! I've done everything I could! Oh StarClan, why can't you let me help these cats?

Come on, you lazy lump," Berrynose urged him. "You'll never get to be a warrior sitting on your tail all day." No? Lionpaw gritted his teeth. If I looked at you, I'd think that's all warriors do!

You're obsessed with the past," Jaypaw warned her. "You want to make sure everything turns out the way you think it should." "I just want to do what's right." "You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to." "I know." Grief pulsed from his mentor, sharper and deeper than Jaypaw expected. "But I'll always try.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.