The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

Mastery is an endless quest to reduce effort without reducing effectiveness.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

A block won’t move without the effort.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Hope floats but effort propels.

Gift ain’t what you take by effort, as swag ain’t what you worthy have.

No,” said Father. “Just do the best you can and don’t let it worry you. In that way you’ll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Moving forward without honest efforts is moving backwards in disguise

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I’ve sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance...

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the...

Nothing […] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Writing fiction is… an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

When you’ve prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you’ll be presented with your own moment of truth. In that moment, you will define who you are and who...

Trying and getting hurt can’t possibly be worse for you than being… stuck.

It’s cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. 

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

I don’t want to be polite. I don’t think campaigning is polite. That’s a disingenuous effort.

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

Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you’d ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work – one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a...

Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you...

In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the ‘security’ out of Social Security.

I don’t know where this pressure came from. I can’t blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt...

A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes...

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection...

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won’t allow you go anywhere, if you don’t make an attempt to move.

There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Don’t expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to… She was...

…the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don’t try?