Effortful Quotes

#1. When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

M. Scott Peck

#2. Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.

Peter C. Brown

#3. Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.

Barbara Oakley

#4. The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. It is fine to take a break from an effortful task every once in a while but your learning experience will be diminished without sustained effort.

Art Markman

#6. What makes some cognitive operations more demanding and effortful than others? What outcomes must we purchase in the currency of attention? What can System 2 do that System 1 cannot? We now have tentative answers to these questions.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. Life is effortful," said Mac. "That's the way it's supposed to be. It's good to have work to do.

Ramona Ausubel

#8. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. But the mall is a thing that should not be suffered. Except maybe for Cinnabon.

Kendare Blake

#10. People make the rules of society, not God.

V.C. Andrews

#11. When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

John Dryden

#12. God created sufferings so that joy might appear through its opposite. Things become manifest through opposites. Since God has no opposite, He remains hidden.

Elif Shafak

#13. You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

Garry Trudeau

#15. My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Ken Scott

#16. Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?'
'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously.
Patch gave a soft laugh, and I knew he'd seen the next question. 'Does Patch have a girlfriend?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#17. Some drink. Some do drugs. I write.

Pamela Morris

#18. Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

John Eliot