Quotes About Effort

All efforts of reason and analysis are, in a word, like trying to slice through a watermelon with sewing needles. They may leave marks on the outer rind, but the fruity pulp will remain perpetually out of reach.

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

For the sake of argument, let's say all your choices and all your effort are destined to be a waste. You're still very much yourself and nobody else. And you're forging ahead, as yourself. So relax.

El talento es como un recipiente. La capacidad del recipiente no cambia por mucho que uno se esfuerce. Y cuando el agua llega al borde, rebosa.

There's nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily. ...But, when you put in that much time and effort, if you do achieve that difficult thing it becomes the cream of your life.

We worked so hard, so hard, building our world one brick at a time. And when it fell apart, it happened just like that. Everything was gone before you knew it.

At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise's economic or social potential.

The best way for a firm to be lucky is to make its own luck.

The seller takes cues from the buyer in such a way that the product becomes a consequence of the marketing effort, not vice versa.

In both small and large organizations, a successful guiding team may consist of only three to five people during the first year of a renewal effort. But in big companies, the coalition needs to grow to the 20 to 50 range before much progress can be made in phase three and beyond.

When you're attempting to discover what you do best and what you enjoy most, it's important to realize that these two things aren't necessarily mutually inclusive. You may get lots of positive feedback about something you're very good at but not truly enjoy it. Conversely, you can love doing something but have no gift for it, so that achieving success requires much more energy than it makes sense to invest.

So if fitness is about persistence, then the apropos question is, The persistence of what?

But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity.

I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

Well, my darling, you can be lazy when you're lying in your coffin. -Rose

I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas.

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, That I have wasted half my day And left my work but just begun. A Last Prayer

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.