Effective Effort Quotes

The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!

We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.

It takes just as much work to do a study of something that is unimportant as it does to study something important, so why not pick something important where you may affect the world.