Quotes About Effort

A što s beskrajnim trudom da prona?eš ravnotežu izme?u osje?aja i ironije, ljepote i strogosti, i pritom otvoriš pukotinu u supstanci svijeta kroz koju bi mogla zasjati istina za smrtnike?

Non è un fallimento, si dice. Non è un fallimento essere in queste stanze, nella tua pelle, a tagliare i gambi dei fiori. Non è un fallimento, ma ti chiede qualcosa: ti chiede uno sforzo; semplicemente essere, ed essere grata; essere felice (terribile parola).

Louis: "I tried to be good. I tried to be open and free." Clarissa: "We all tried. I'm not sure the organism is fully capable.

Yine de bu kaba ve y?k?lmaz dünyay? seviyor, baÅŸkalar?n?n da sevdiÄŸini biliyor, hem yoksullar?n hem zenginlerin, hiç kimse bunun nedenlerinden özel olarak söz etmese de. Yoksa, ne kadar karars?z olsak da, ne kadar yara alm?? olsak da neden yaÅŸamak için çaba harcayal?m ki?

he crawled among the gnarls and snags of his father's vineyard, tying errant tendrils back to the stakes with rough brown cord that was to his mind the exact color and texture of righteous, doomed effort.

I'm moved by the effort, not the object; a demand for something rare and precious can only turn devotion into errand.

M? impresioneaz? efortul,nu obiectul.S? cer ceva rar È™i valoros ar însemna s? transform devotamentul în obligaÈ›ie.

On any given day I'm likely to be working here at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences—or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles. --Going, Going, Gone

A writer's greatest challenge, though, is tone. I like a piece to sound as if it were dashed off in 15 minutes -- even when hours might have been spent in contriving just the right degree of airiness and nonchalance.

This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.

Having talent and not putting it on the line is just like not having it and desperately wanting to be recognized

From On Combat (2004) Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying!

I can accept failure but I can not accept not trying.

DI can accept failure, but i can't accept not trying.

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Puedo aceptar el fracaso, pero no acepto no intentarlo