Quotes About Effort

I was becoming curious about these things and one day I asked Mama Masako "What does 100,000 yen look like?" She pulled a billfold out of her obi and showed me ten 10,000-yen notes (about the same as ten $100 bills). "It sure doesn't look like much," I said. "I guess I should be working harder.

În acea clip?, Egor se deÈ™tept? brusc. ÎÈ™i amintea cu o extraordinar? precizie fiecare am?nunt al visului. Nu mai era însp?imântat. Toat? fiinÈ›a lui era r?v??it? ca dup? un mare efort.

After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

You better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try".

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

What we carry defines who we are. And the effort we make is our legacy.

Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.

and they fished and fished for hours, taking turns, but neither of them knew how to fish, or maybe they were just unlucky, and though they felt nibbles, they caught nothing, and it was as though they were merely feeding their bread to the insatiable brine

men pushing themselves as hard as they could push themselves, not exercising, but training, and perhaps not even training, but fighting, fighting the gravity the world exerts on all those who walk up on it, exerts seemingly equally, though in actuality not equally, not equally at all.

While you have been waking up to the aroma of coffee brewing, dressing to the hushed rhythm of other people's labor, I have been in the kitchen since I was six and in your kitchen since six this morning. In my life as a minor domestic, a bit character in your daily dramas, I have prepared thousands of omelets. You have attempted three, each effort wasted, a discarded half-moon with burnt-butter craters, a simple dish that in a stark and economical way separates you and me.

La persecución y la caza corren propiamente de nuestra cuenta; no tenemos excusa si las efectuamos mal y fuera de propósito. Fallar en la captura es otra cosa. Porque hemos nacido para buscar la verdad; poseerla corresponde a una potencia mayor. [...] El mundo es sólo una escuela de indagación. Lo importante no es quien llegará a la meta, sino quién efectuará las más bellas carreras.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

A good life is made by accumulating in the course of a lifetime everything that is really good and by wanting nothing that impedes or frustrates this effort.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.

Then our first effort must be to identify the actual words. Only after recognizing them individually can we begin to try to understand them, to struggle with perceiving what they mean.

To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

By learning to relax and easing excessive effort, you stimulate neurons to find new awareness pathways. Proprioception is stimulated. This is an awareness of where the body is in space that does not rely on visual cues. Grace is the natural result of making the right use of effort and will. The body begins to move in a naturally gracious manner in all activities, for the training is not limited to the time spent on the yoga mat. The training affects all motions that the anatomy makes.

he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.

It's not that kind of game, Han, she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already. The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can.

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.