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.

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt,” said Saliman quietly....

Maendeleo ya mtu yatatokana na juhudi za mtu mwenyewe.

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion – through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile....

less need, less effort,less negativity,-can control over greater trust for greater desire within

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. … And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less...

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

(about William Blake)As for Blake’s happiness–a man who knew him said: “If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.”And...

Making the attempt is what matters most.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside...

It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.

I’ve been married, divorced; I’ve been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret… all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Denial couldn’t be maintained.

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler...

I’m bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A’s you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord...

When it comes to human success, I’m pretty sure the object doesn’t need a net external force to move it.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Kigumu kuliko vyote ni kizuri kuliko vyote.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in...

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

Only super-efforts count.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Loving someone can never be difficult, it’s when you judge the other person that everything tumbles.. Loving someone is easy, so I fall, rise or fly in love over and over again.. what’s difficult is...

Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds...

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black,...

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a...

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.