Quotes About Effort

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. —ANATOLE FRANCE, author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Tons of people deserve to be successful because they're supersmart and interesting and work hard, but they just haven't had the luck.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

Persistence matters more than talent. The student with straight As is irrelevant if the student sitting next to him with Bs has more passion.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest. Earn with your mind, not your time. 99% of all effort is wasted. Total honesty at all times. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett).

In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.

There are no statues erected to critics.

There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I'm hardly an artist. And I'm not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I'm funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It's the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare.

Christopher Sommer Tótem: Halcón «Si los mejores del mundo se parten el culo para hacerse fuertes, ¿por qué no lo haces tú?» Christopher Sommer (IG/FB: @GymnasticBodies, gymnasticbodies.com) fue entrenador del Equipo Nacional de Gimnasia Artística de Estados Unidos y es fundador del sistema de entrenamiento GymnasticBodies

La tercera cosa es que cuando intentas hacer algo diez veces más grande, en lugar de un 10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

Radz? sobie z odrzuceniem przez wytrwa?e d??enie, a nie przez poszukiwanie mo?liwo?ci gdzie indziej. Moja maksyma to s?owa Samuela Becketta, mojego osobistego idola: »Nieustannie próbuj. Nieustannie przegrywaj. To niewa?ne. Próbuj jeszcze raz. I jeszcze raz przegrywaj. Ale lepiej«. To nie do wiary, ile mo?na osi?gn??, d???c do niemo?liwego z odwag?, ponosz?c pora?ki, ale coraz mniejsze.

My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Si los mejores del mundo se parten el culo para hacerse fuertes, ¿por qué no lo haces tú?»

Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Uno es recalcar que realizarás ochenta mil horas de trabajo a lo largo de tu vida.

The antithesis of mastery is the pursuit of quick fixes.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

En esto consiste la estrategia del lienzo, en ayudarte ayudando a los demás. En realizar un esfuerzo coordinado para cambiar tu satisfacción a corto plazo por una recompensa a largo plazo.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.