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Trained To Expect

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Adversity, Animals, Behavior, Effort, Expectations, Gregory Lukianoff, Happiness, Health, Jonathan Haidt, Locus of Control, Pain, Philosophy, Psychologists, Quotes, Success, The Coddling of the American Mind, Training on August 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The concept of “locus of control” goes back to behaviorist days, when psychologists noted that animals (including people) could be trained to expect that they could get what they wanted through their own behavior (that is, some control over outcomes was “internal” to themselves). Conversely, animals could be trained to expect that nothing they did mattered (that is, all control of outcomes was “external” to themselves). A great deal of research shows that having an internal locus of control leads to greater health, happiness, effort expended, success in school, and success at work. An internal locus of control has even been found to make many kinds of adversity less painful.

— Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
From their book: “The Coddling of the American Mind“

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Encourage Others To Become Active And To Vote In November

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged American Politics, Effort, Election 2024, Ordinary Talent, Perseverance, Philosophy, Quotes, Robert Collier, Success, Thomas Fowell Buxton on September 6, 2024| 2 Comments »

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

— Robert Collier

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

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Good Practice

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Action, Buddha, Concentration, Effort, Livelihood, Mindfulness, Paths, Philosophy, Quotes, Speech, Suffering, Thought, Understanding on July 31, 2024| 2 Comments »

If we want to end suffering, we should practice the 8 fold paths. These 8 fold paths include:
1.	Right Understanding
2.	Right Thought
3.	Right Speech
4.	Right Action
5.	Right Livelihood
6.	Right Effort
7.	Right Mindfulness
8.	Right Concentration

— Buddha

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Talking To Yourself

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins, Effort, Pain, Perseverance, Philosophy, Quotes, Self-Talk, Sympathetic Response on July 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »

When you indulge in negative self-talk, the gifts of a sympathetic response will remain out of reach. However, if you can manage those moments of pain that come with maximum effort, by remembering what you’ve been through to get to that point in your life, you will be in a better position to persevere and choose fight over flight. That will allow you to use the adrenaline that comes with a sympathetic response to go even harder.

— David Goggins
From his book: “Can’t Hurn Me“

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100%

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Coach John Wooden, Effort, Philosophy, Quotes on April 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.

— John Wooden

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Enormous Effort

Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Clarice Lispector, Effort, https://aponderingmind.org/, Life, Mistakes, Molecules, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Simplicity, The Hour of the Star on February 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
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Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

— Clarice Lispector
From her book: “The Hour of the Star“

[This quote was originally found on one of the blogs I have been following for several years: A Pondering Mind at: https://aponderingmind.org/

The specific post is at: https://aponderingmind.org/2019/09/02/all-the-world-began-with-a-yes/

Please visit the original site if you have a spare minute. — kmab]

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Standing Strength

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Effort, Growth, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Obstacles, Philosophy, Quotes, Strength, Struggle on February 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

— Napoleon Hill

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But You’re Still Looking?

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Approval, Charles Schwab, Criticism, Effort, Philosophy, Quotes on November 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I have yet to find the person . . . who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would do under a spirit of criticism.

— Charles Schwab

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Try

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Effort, H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Try Your Best on September 20, 2022| 2 Comments »

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Your Best Heat

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Concentration, Effort, Elizabeth Bowen, Philosophy, Quotes on July 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Still Learning (And Practicing) Guitar

Posted in Guitar, Guitar Stuff, Music, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Despair, Discipline, Effort, Epictetus, Guitar, Music, Philosophy, Quotes, Talent on May 25, 2021| 2 Comments »

Even if I lack the talent, I will not abandon the effort on that account…. We do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.

— Epictetus

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A Direct Relationship

Posted in Boxing, Philosophy, Quotes, Sports, tagged Boxing, Discipline, Effort, Fran Sands, Hard Work, Information, Philosophy, Quotes, Results, Shortcuts, Sports, Techniques, The Beginner Boxer Toolkit, www.myboxingcoach.com on March 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »

I give you the information and techniques in a simple and straightforward way, and you put the information and techniques to good use by putting in the hard work.

There are no shortcuts.

There is a direct relationship between effort and results. If you are disciplined and you work hard at learning, then you will get there.

— Fran Sands
From his book: “The Beginner Boxer Toolkit“
Online at: www.myboxingcoach.com

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