Quotes About Effort

Jaynes (1976) suggested that task persistence is a uniquely human strength. With some exceptions, most animals do not persist at any given task longer than 20 minutes before moving on to the next task.

Of course, perseverance does not guarantee success, but success is often unattainable without it.

Several studies have found that people are less likely to persist on difficult or unsolvable problems if they have already exerted self-control on a prior task, such as attempting to control their thoughts or emotions or resisting the temptation to eat chocolates and cookies. Some recent evidence suggests that the capacity for self-control is enhanced by positive emotions, and there is evidence that people in good moods persist longer (and perform better) at solving tasks.

There are some things you just do because it's the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else's hands. I want to believe there's value in that. You're doing everything you can for the patient, but you're not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn't worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.

Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111

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If it's hard to like what one isn't good at, will I like it more when I am better at it?" - Sonea

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." —Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.

Con padre Emanuele aveva capito che si doveva infervorare per le Heroiche Imprese - e che si può spendere una vita non per combattere un gigante, ma per nominare in troppi modi un nano.

Eski bir atasözünün dediÄŸi gibi, tüy kalemi üç parmak tutar, ama tüm beden çal???r.

As an ancient proverb says, three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works. And aches. -Adso of Melk

If I wanted, I could remove the offending passage from the screen but not from the memory, thereby creating an archive of my repressions while denying omnivorous Freudians and virtuosi of variant texts the pleasure of conjecture, the exercise of their occupation, their academic glory. This is better than real memory, because real memory, at the cost of much effort, learns to remember but not to forget.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.

The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What

He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour.

proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

give it your best shot. And if you fail? What is it they say? "Try again. Fail better.

Basically, it doesn't take all that much physical effort to shape up your mind.