Quotes About Effort

Un esfuerzo rico, educado y con contactos funciona mejor.

Antes de juzgar, recordemos que el esfuerzo no lo es todo, y que hay esfuerzos que parten en desventaja.

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

Sometimes people with the growth mindset stretch themselves so far that they do the impossible.

Por qué es tan aterrador el esfuerzo? Hay dos razones. Una es que en la mentalidad fija se supone que los grandes genios no lo necesitan,

Como esse estudo era uma espécie de teste de QI, é possível dizer que elogiar a capacidade reduziu o QI dos alunos, e elogiar o esforço elevou-o.

people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

La mentalidad de crecimiento permite que la gente valore lo que está haciendo sin tener en cuenta el resultado.

fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome.

La mentalidad fija se enfoca en el resultado. Si fracasas –o si no eres el mejor–, todo se ha desperdiciado

En general, la gente con mentalidad fija prefiere un éxito sin esfuerzo, ya que es la mejor manera de demostrar su talento.

Con seguridad las personas de mentalidad fija han leído libros que aseguran que el éxito tiene que ver con ser la mejor versión de ti mismo, no con ser mejor que los demás; que el fracaso es una oportunidad, no una condena, o que el esfuerzo es la llave del éxito. Pero no pueden ponerlo en práctica porque su mentalidad básica –la creencia en rasgos fijos–

Everything I was going through boiled down to fear. Fear of trying and failing. . . . If you go to an audition and don't really try, if you're not really prepared, if you didn't work as hard as you could have and you don't win, you have an excuse. . . . Nothing is harder than saying, 'I gave it my all and it wasn't good enough.

They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

The Brainology program kind of made me change the way i work and study and practice for school work now that i know how my brain works and what happens when i learn.

Here's what this means: Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

I don't know how to get things started... It's like there's this great big wheel I've got to start rolling only I don't seem to have the muscles to get it going.

self-justification momentarily protects us from feeling clumsy, incompetent, or forgetful. The kind that can erode a marriage, however, reflects a more serious effort to protect not what we did but who we are, and it comes in two versions: "I'm right and you're wrong" and "Even if I'm wrong, too bad; that's the way I am.

Elliot predicted that if people go through a great deal of pain, discomfort, effort, or embarrassment to get something, they will be happier with that "something" than if it came to them easily. For behaviorists, this was a preposterous prediction. Why would people like anything associated with pain? But for Elliot, the answer was obvious: self-justification.

The more costly a decision in terms of time, money, effort, or inconvenience and the more irrevocable its consequences, the greater the dissonance and the greater the need to reduce it by overemphasizing the good things about the choice made.

While she admired those who excelled, she considered sports a torture to be avoided if at all possible.

I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it...

Sometimes love isn't enough, or it takes different forms. You have to work hard at relationships.