Quotes About Effort

Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380

as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained.

the mountain between us is one i cannot climb .

We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment

Productivity is the efficiency with which we convert inputs into outputs. In other words, how good

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

Who knows how you should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

The ongoing, concerted effort he put into guiding Risa through her childhood had an unexpected and gratifying reward in his dealings with the women he saw from time to time. He

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

If it comes easy...Take it twice

wagon bed now, working

Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.

Stillness is a reflection of our growing openness to the unpredictable unfolding of the world as it is, a freedom from the constant effort to bend things to our liking, to make them conform to our conditioned notions of good and bad.

You're a grown-up, right? Then don't be a dope. The gadgets, or the weights, do not do the work. You do. Okay, go to a decent gym and hire the nicest, smartest man or woman you can find.

Sometimes in a game - even with the best will in the world - a striker can drift out for 10 minutes and then come back into it.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

It's a miracle that any job comes together.

Don't expect any miracles, I can only come in and do what I can and give my best. I can't work miracles but I will try to.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

The two misconceptions of me are I didn't work hard, and that everything I made it look easy.

We work too hard to be miserable.