Quotes About Effort

if his efforts are mediocre, we're likely to let him live. If he shows us brilliance, we'll kill him.

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

He did what he could, and that was more than enough.

True diligence runs contrary to human nature.

Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I'm trying. I'm really trying, and that will be enough.

Now the search is all that matters. I know there will come a time when I find my book, but it is far in the future. And I know without doubt that it will not be today. Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I'm trying. I'm really trying, and that will be enough.

There are fun programs with jokes in them, there are exciting programs which do The Right Thing, and there are sad programs which make valiant tries but don't quite fly.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Una vez que identifique un segmento de mercado, tiene que preguntarse si es lo bastante amplio y accesible como para justificar su esfuerzo de marketing. Si la respuesta es no, entonces tiene lo que se llama un producto «fabricable», pero no un producto «comercializable». Solo dan dinero los productos comercializables.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Except for a human-powered hoist described

Nothing taxes a bird's muscles as much as flying,

El esfuerzo por comprender el universo es una de las pocas cosas que eleva la vida humana por sobre el nivel de la farsa y le imprime algo de la elevación de la tragedia.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

Honestly, some days it's like trying to get an angry ginger tom into a pair of Lycra cycling shorts.

trainees would improve their rate of gaining if they would halve their training volume per workout, double the rest days between workouts, get serious about delivering real effort in the reduced training time, and pay more attention to ensuring that sufficient calories and nutrients are consumed each day.

This effort to appear dumb—or to put a positive spin on it, to "be a man of the people"—takes a lot of work that in a better world would be unnecessary. You have to really want to be a politician to undertake it.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.