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

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.

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

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.

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

Hope floats but effort propels.

If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the...

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves...

If I believe my ability is small, then my efforts will be shallow and my push weak. If I think I am not capable, I will not try with energy. Without strong belief, I won’t...

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others’ loss & despair.

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It’s too easy not...

The brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I’ve made an effort.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are...

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

Baada ya kelele zile Murphy alijisemea moyoni kama angebaki pale alipokuwa amebana au angetoka, washenzi wangemvua nguo; alitaka akimbilie nje lakini akasita. Nje wangeweza kumwona na hivyo kumuua wakati sasa alishaanza jitihada za kuokoa maisha...

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality; it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a...

We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in...

Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for ‘F’ and having ‘A’ is a failure. Success is having what you do expect or planned, having ‘F’ when you planned for...

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts–simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed...

Don’t pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

Nothing is for free, even in heaven.

The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations.

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there...

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.

Walls don’t fall without effort.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs...

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!! – Adbhut

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

My own style is one of not much effort.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the...

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew;The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

No one ever drowned in sweat.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement...