It is either easy or impossible.
People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
We’re not very good at cutting things. We’re not even good at reducing things.
Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.
I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.
What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.
The Presidential function is difficult and full of responsibility. It calls from the incumbent a plenitude of his physical vigor. I am aware I am no longer strong enough for the task. Wherefore, I resign.
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Work is exciting when it's challenging. It should be something that makes me afraid initially and prompts me to ask myself whether I'll be able to do it or not.
I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.
A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.
There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'
I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.
We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
