Quotes About Effort

Harder you Try, Luckier you get

You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover

When in doubt, use brute force.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence." I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.

But if you are hell-bent on persuading someone, or if your back is truly against the wall, you might as well give it your best shot.

It was John Kenneth Galbraith, the hyperliterate economic sage, who coined the phrase "conventional wisdom." He did not consider it a compliment. "We associate truth with convenience," he wrote, "with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most

The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it.

We associate truth with convenience," he wrote, "with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.

The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer even one small question well.

When you're that engaged, you'll run circles around other people even if they are more naturally talented.

Every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are. The fact that it remains a problem means it is too damned hard to be cracked in full.

What does tenure do? It distorts people's effort so that they face strong incentives early in their career (and presumably work very hard early on as a consequence) and very weak incentives forever after (and presumably work much less hard on average as a consequence).

Quitting is hard in part because it is equated with failure, and nobody likes to fail, or at least be seen failing. But is failure necessarily so terrible?

If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

To ensure that there is minimal duplication of effort and for regional product managers to align effectively with the enterprise, a corporate product and portfolio management function is necessary.

If you want your boomerang to come back, first you've got to throw it.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Flow starts when we say yes to the fight.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round.

This did not come down to chance or luck. The happiest people on earth worked hard for their fulfillment. They didn't just have the most peak experiences, they had devoted their lives to having these experiences.

It means you lose by not trying to play full out, by not trying to do the impossible—whatever that is for you.

Lion glances back at the pigeons. Sees a flicker he didn't notice before. Remembers that the de-extinction program was a failed effort, realizes he's looking at a light-vert. An AR projection of an almost. The bad dreams of a society disguised as a good time.

Dr. Weiss stood. There are two things you need to know right off the bat: The first is that it takes great courage to admit fear or that you need hep. Just by being here, you've proven that you have the courage. And the second id that we never get what we wish for - ever. He shrugged. We get what we work for. He looked into David's eyes. Are you prepared to put in the work, David McClain?