Quotes About Effort

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times. Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I just put my heart into it. That's the difference. It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something, you can do it, up to a point. If you really work at being happy, you can do it, up to a point...Anything more than that is luck.

You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it's got nothing to do with you, but you're not really like that. In your own way, you're out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can't tell by looking at you.

People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given

Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine --not to say elegant-- mess.

finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tienen que fluir, y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlo lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

Life just isn't fair, is how it used to strike me. Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for, while others can get it without any effort at all.

Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. Personally, I don't buy it. Yuki leaned against the car door. But that's real hard, isn't it? she said. Real hard, I said. But it's worth trying for.

There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I'm convinced, it's already too late. But what're you going to do? That's the kind of person I am.

La vida es esencialmente injusta. De eso no cabe la menor duda. Pero creo que incluso de las situaciones injustas es posible extraer lo que de justicia haya en ellas. Puede que ello cueste tiempo y esfuerzo. Y puede que ese tiempo y esfuerzo sean en vano. Decidir si merece o no la pena intentar extraer esa justicia es algo que, queda al criterio de cada uno.

If a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn.