Quotes About Effort

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The latter demands an effort, one with implicit sacrifice and hardship, one demanding all the higher qualities of what we call virtues.

Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required.

Bah! You're not worth the effort anyway!' And all at once she collapsed into a heap of spiders that scurried in all directions.

We are all worthwhile, sir, once we assume the burden of forgiveness and the effort of absolution.

The rush of the river was a voice, a presence. Water flowed indifferent to the heave and plunge of the sun, the shrouded moon and the slow spin of the stars. The sound reached them in a song without words, and all effort to grasp its meaning was hopeless, for, like the water itself, one could not grasp hold of sound. The flow was ceaseless and immeasurable and just as stillness did not in fact exist, so neither did true, absolute silence.

He would look upon my house and pronounce it adequate. Adequate! Oh, how I hated that word! My sweat, my blood, and he called them adequate! And then he would walk inside and close the door, and I would place the last stone, and the house would vanish! I don't think I like Gothos.

She thought to resume crawling, then consciousness slipped away again.

Fighting is for people who fail at everything else.

You realize, don't you, that I've worked very hard at cultivating apathy. In fact, it seems to be bearing endless fruit.

The sorrow in his soul had begun to taste sour. Aged and dissolute, moments from crumbling. He did not know what would come in its wake. Resignation, as might find a fatally ill man in his last days? Or just an exultant eagerness to see it all end? At the moment, even despair seemed too much effort.

Go ask 'em if you like." "No. Too much effort. The bad thing about asking questions—" "Is gettin' answers, aye - you've said that before." "That is another bad thing - the way we all end up saying the same things over and over again.

He wiped sweat from his brow, drew a shaky breath.