I have always believed that process is more important than results.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.
Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.
I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?
Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!
I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
I used to have long hair and get it done every two weeks, and it was never worth it to me. I would just walk out of the salon and put it in a ponytail anyway.
The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.
I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.
