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.

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?

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I’ve been working...

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Fiecare nouă tehnologie impune dob ndirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, și asta la răstimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but...

Never give up. It’s like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can’t do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You don’t want to get stuck with a record that you’ve done with someone that you feel obligated to put out – that’s not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together...

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

Very often, people will come out and say, ‘Greeks aren’t doing things, Greeks aren’t making changes, there’s no reform,’ That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge...

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

Don’t tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will...

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

It’s only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it’s because they don’t see their own death looming. Their fear is, “Will my family, friends and lovers...

There will never be Perfect Conditions.Start with whatever resources you have,Put all your Efforts and Succeed !

Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through...

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a...

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so...

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won’t hold. But more important was her example that...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.