Quote by Ryan Holiday

“Because you believe a more competent person would be farther along by now, when you do run up against something that is not easily…

— Valerie Young

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Force has no place where there is need of skill

— Herodotus

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

— Tenzin Palmo

“To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.”

— Anonymous

“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

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

“The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

— Joe Carter

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

— Angela Duckworth

“Achieving mastery requires breaking through the shell of your own limitations—both actual and imagined—and struggling up to the freedom and enjoyment of real skill.”

— Erika Andersen