Quotes About Effort

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.

These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do....

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?