Quotes About Effort

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.

con la mentalidad adecuada y la enseñanza apropiada, la gente es capaz de mucho más de lo que pensamos.

In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

solo porque algunas personas puedan hacer bien algo sin necesidad de esforzarse, eso no significa que no lo puedan hacer otros con entrenamiento (y a veces, incluso mejor). Esto

training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way. Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

título, en él argumenta que la creatividad no es un acto mágico de inspiración, sino el resultado de mucho trabajo y entrega, hasta para Mozart.

Acaso cualquiera puede hacer cualquier cosa? De verdad que no lo sé. Sin embargo, creo que podemos estar de acuerdo ahora en que la gente puede hacer mucho más de lo que parece.

When we (temporarily) put people in a fixed mindset, with its focus on permanent traits, they quickly fear challenge and devalue effort.

But as you can imagine, their confidence is more fragile since setbacks and even effort can undermine it.

think intelligence is something you have to work for . . . it isn't just given to you. . . . Most kids, if they're not sure of an answer, will not raise their hand to answer the question. But what I usually do is raise my hand, because if I'm wrong, then my mistake will be corrected. Or I will raise my hand and say, 'How would this be solved?' or 'I don't get this. Can you help me?' Just by doing that I'm increasing my intelligence.

Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement." Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.

Who cared about or enjoyed learning when our whole being was at stake every time she gave us a test or called on us in class?

But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they

a person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better." He

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?

his extreme love of learning and challenge.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Before we judge, let's remember that effort isn't quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

If you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.