Quotes About Effort

Unless people can find meaning and purpose in their work, they are not likely to stick around very long or put in the effort required to make a difference. These feelings are particularly important for leaders to tap into during times of high uncertainty.

The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.

Pickett's charge represented the Confederate war effort in microcosm: matchless valor, apparent initial success, and ultimate disaster.

avoid dying a moment before we have to. Given that we expend so much effort staying alive, it might seem strange to think that anyone

The Great Problem Solver, as it turned out, had been at work on a problem that I had only dimly comprehended.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

What is at stake here for owners is not the amount of property as such, but its ability to draw an audience for whom it will be appropriately emblematic; that is, and audience who will see it as just compensation for the effort and skill used in acquiring it.

The Renaissance, like all genuine cultural phenomena, was not an effort to promote one or another vision. It was an effort to find visions that promised still more vision.

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in a game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

Some self-veiling is present in all finite games. Players must intentionally forget the inherently voluntary nature of their play, else all competitive effort will desert them.

Here's the thing about digging in January: it's a lousy idea. The ground was as hard as a surprise math quiz. But not quite as much fun.

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.

Many more Mondays, many more games.

Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.