Quotes About Effort

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. On the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!

I know that you will do your best," my father said, handing me my boarding pass. "I know that you will make me proud of you." "I'll try," I said automatically, but I didn't know what to do to make him proud. I kissed and hugged him, whispering, "I promise I'll try.

Le mérite de l'Occident est d'avoir cherché avec véhémence une riposte sociale, humaine, assez efficace et valable, aux duretés multiples de l'industrialisation. Il a fabriqué un humanisme social.

Here she was, watching the last few people clamber

One cannot improve as an endurance athlete except by changing one's relationship with perception of effort. Even

Any athlete who experienced race-level effort completely out of context would instantly regain full respect for its awfulness. If a runner were to suddenly experience the same level of effort she felt during the last mile of her hardest marathon while climbing a flight of steps at home, for example, she would probably fall to the floor and call for help, believing she was dying.

The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust one's effort in order to get to the finish line as quickly as possible. Its inputs are perception of effort, motivation, knowledge of the distance left to be covered, and past experience.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

It is horribly disappointing to watch kids learn to blame others for their lack of success instead of becoming people who reach goals through effort and determination

man becomes rich in proportion to the remunerative nature of his labor;

Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.

Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienestar y lo hace huir de la incomodidad, el esfuerzo y el dolor.

Andar no es un deporte. El deporte es una cuestión de técnicas y de reglas, de resultados y de competición, y todo ello requiere un largo aprendizaje: conocer las posiciones, dominar los gestos adecuados. Y, mucho después, vienen la improvisación y el talento.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

You might as well hurl cherries at a mountain.

U ljudskom bi?u ne postoji savršenstvo, ali se može biti savršen idiot ako tome težiš.

Dicho de otro modo, no importa lo que somos, sino lo que hacemos con lo que somos. Da igual vivir 650.000 horas que seis horas y media. Las horas no sirven para nada si no sabes qué hacer con ellas.

Sipelgate jaoks on nende tegevus ülioluline, aga meie teame, et piisab vaid ühest jalahoobist, et nende väikeste ja pidevate pingutuste vili kaotsi läheks. Ja sipelgad ei mõista eales, miks nii läks.

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