2013 TKR: Quick Quotes about effort

Quick Quotes about effort
Self-help--Thinkerer
Update 4/19/2018

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• The reason quotes stick around is that they fit lots of things.  
• So look them over.  
• You may find one that fits you.  
• Or somebody you know.

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• It takes a lot of planning to avoid effort.
• You will never have to do anything you don't want to do. (Valid when signed by your Supreme Being.)
• Beware of ambition; it can drive you into a lot of work.
• Some people are so eager to succeed, they're willing to work for it.
• You gotta believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of other people?

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• Planning is easier than fixing.
• Not everything you want is worth the cost.
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth knowing why you are doing it.
• To pay for success, you may have to tax your brain.
• The only public part of the success story is the last act.

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• No effort is too much if the payoff is worth it.
• Nothing is easy if it does not deliver what you need.
• Bring good fortune to your business. Work weekends.
• Your powers are not in your strengths but in how you use your strengths.
• Skill. My ability to accomplish a result, developed through hard work.
• Those who can do. Those who can’t complain.

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• Never give up. The mighty oak was once a nut that held its ground.
• Talent. Somebody else’s ability to accomplish a result, given to them by good fortune.
• Hand bone connected to the mouth bone.
• The harder I work, the luckier I get.
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
• If you don’t know what to do, figure out what to do. That’s what to do.

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• There is no such thing as a free lunch.
• You can never get all your squirrels up the same tree.
• For some things, practice is better than wishing.
• You learn about tools from using them.
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well enough to meet your goal.

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• There is no such thing as abstract action.
• Hunting is not work, even if you get paid for it.
• When the going gets tough, the Hunters get going.
• When you work for yourself, you never work by the hour
• Amateurs complain. Professionals fix.

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• How to recognize an opportunity: It comes disguised as a lot of work.
• Hunters are the fire in the belly.
• You don’t get what you want unless you go for it.
• Hoping and wishing are excuses for waiting.
• You don’t like it? Do it first. Then you have time to celebrate.

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• If it were easy, you would have already done it.
• Everything is hard till you know how.
• You gotta believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of other people?
• Everything is easy until you try to plan it.
• Self-discipline is an illusion produced by engineering the job.
• If you laid all the complaints end to end, you still wouldn't get anywhere.

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• The most efficient way to complain about a problem is to fix it.
• Gamer's insight: You don't win just by reading the instructions.
• Fixing things is easier when someone else does it.
• Look for something that's hard work. Really cuts the competition.
• Talent means you do it over till you get it right.
• The harder it is, the happier you will be when you get it done

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• The way to get it right the first time is to lower your standards.
• The best luck goes to those prepared to use it
• In the long run, it is easier to do it than to keep explaining why you have not done it.
• Never take on a big job. Take on a set of little jobs that will add up to a big job
• Creativity is the right mix of ideas and hard work.
• Of course it's hard. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

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