Quotes About Effort

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.

Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emotions will cause you to become demoralized.

Of course chance favors the prepared! Hard work, showing up on time, wearing a clean (preferably white) shirt, using deodorant, and some such conventional things contribute to success—they are certainly necessary but may be insufficient as they do not cause success.

Bir treni kaç?rmak ancak peÅŸinden koÅŸarsan?z ac? verici olur.

This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.

you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

The same applies to the conventional values of persistence, doggedness and perseverance: necessary, very necessary. One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning? Of course skills count, but they do count less in highly random environments than they do in dentistry.

you need to make more and more to stay in the same place.

it does not come naturally to me.*

Este mult mai dificil s? pierzi într-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu însuÈ›i.

It costs a lot of energy to fake that you're not bored.

The glass is dead; living things are long volatility. The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks.

That all millionaires were persistent, hardworking people does not make persistent hard workers become millionaires:

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.

it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.

We use reference points in our heads, say sales projections, and start building beliefs around them because less mental effort is needed to compare an idea to a reference point than to evaluate it in the absolute (System 1 at work!). We cannot work without a point of reference.

Es la misma llamada telefónica, el mismo proceso de computación, el mismo documento legal, el mismo gasto de células cerebrales, el mismo esfuerzo por verificar que la transacción es correcta.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write

The doer wins by doing, not convincing.

which should not discourage anyone from trying.

the easier it was to make money.