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.

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings that were sometimes bad but precious in memory, and bric-a-brac. Only...

There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don’t bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page – the writer’s obviously going to be trying their hardest...

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran...

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.