Quotes About Effort

I guess I used it up. It's taking all

in particular, all the work of it gave her a short respite

anyone." She tried

This was supposed to be easy. Why isn't it?

clothes, wrestled each

ByÅ'a mieszaninÄ… szczerych prób i ?ycia w kÅ'amstwie i oszustwie.

considerable effort and a great deal of

If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.

And when he did, all bets were off, but it took a lot of pushing to get him off the ground. But

ruthlessly pulled weeds and spent blossoms.

weeping, her eyes exhausted from worry. "I did my best. I did all

I expect sometimes both tend, and other times one may tend more as the other forgets for a bit, then it might shift over again." It was all a matter of balance, he thought, with some care and effort tossed in.

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

The year you spent 'killing yourself' to make me love you…I thought that was us being best friends. We had all those intimate conversations and you sent me all those long e-mails and we watched all those movies involving Eric Stoltz—I thought that was us having fun. But you see that kind of behavior as the work you're forced to do in order to sleep with the people you want to sleep with.

That, more than any person or event, informed the experience of nineties life: an adversarial relationship with the unseemliness of trying too hard.

But at that particular moment in time, he was the hottest director in the hemisphere. Critics had loved his unsentimental debut Dead Antelope, and it had become trendy to suggest his sophomore effort, Kiki Vandeweghe, should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.