Quotes About Effort

Once such emotional engagement has been created - demand will always follow - yet one could say the "side product of your effort is demand" the primary purpose is to create love.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

In no other game but love can you make all the right moves and still lose.

getting good passes.

No family is perfect. Get that idea out of your head. And nobody is perfect either. All we can do is work at it. And we do.

We can't always do what we want in life, answered her father, so we do the best we can.

and we could see how it works out.

The particular combination of the explicit communication of high standards and the demonstrated assurance of the teacher's belief in the student's ability to succeed (as evidenced by the effort to provide detailed, constructive feedback) was a powerful intervention for Black students...it was an exceedingly effective way to generate the trust needed to motivate Black students to make their best effort.

Zhou and Lee identify another factor important to the successful educational outcomes of Asian children: mind-set. "Asian immigrants have been raised in countries where the prevalent belief is that effort, rather than ability, is the most critical ingredient for achievement.… By contrast, native-born American parents believe that their children's outcomes are more heavily influenced by innate ability.

We can shift a student's focus from the anxiety of proving ability in the face of negative stereotypes to the confidence of improving with effort despite the negative stereotypes. Embracing a theory of intelligence as something that can develop—that can be expanded through effective effort—is something all of us can do to reduce the impact of stereotype threat and increase achievement in all of our students.

struggled into their wraps

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill.

they took quite a lot of work to keep going. A typical stove in 1899, according to a study in Boston, burned some three hundred pounds of coal in a week, produced twenty-seven pounds of ash, and required three hours and eleven minutes of attention.

It has been calculated, and goodness knows how, it must be said, that during the course of a lifetime the heart does an amount of work sufficient a one ton object 150 miles into the air. It is a truly remarkable implement. It just doesn't care about your love life.

It's easy to make bricks, but making houses requires far more than throwing a pile of bricks in the air.

complex, but the real problem was filling them

to wipe his brow and look sourly at his immediate future.

properispomenon.

Do you know," he said, "it's twenty years since you wrote Notes from a Small Island?" (This was my first book about Britain. It did awfully well there.) "Twenty years?" I replied, amazed at how much past one can accumulate without any effort at all.

Let her work for it.

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

From Hurley, Virginia, to Beckley, West Virginia, is eighty-two miles, a little bit less as the crow flies, but you can't get there as the crow flies unless you are a crow.