Ability Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Talent—how fast we improve in skill—absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculations twice, not once. Effort builds skill. At the very same time,…

— Angela Duckworth

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort.…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Part of the reason why a certain skill often seems so effortless for great masters is not just because they’ve mastered the process—they really…

— Ryan Holiday

“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done…

— Angela Duckworth

Effort overcomes a lot of things.

— Jason Taylor

Continuous Effort Not Strength or Intelligence Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential

— Melchor Lim

A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of…

— Daniel Kahneman

Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is…

— Mark Cuban

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

— Carol S. Dweck

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,…

— Donald A. Norman

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

— Anonymous