Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Normal daily efforts are insufficient for significant change; extraordinary effort is required.
In plain terms
Ordinary hard work is not enough you need extreme effort.
What can you take from it?
Expect to exert extraordinary effort to achieve meaningful results.

Where it applies

  • skill acquisition
  • fitness goals
  • career advancement

Putting it to work

  • push beyond comfort zones
  • increase intensity

Questions to consider

  • Is your effort truly exceptional?
  • What are you holding back?

Another view

Sustainable progress often requires consistency over intensity.

More from G. I. Gurdjieff

  1. Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

    Permalink to quote #33
  2. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain …

    Permalink to quote #35
  3. It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the sa…

    Permalink to quote #32

Related quotes

  1. There is absolutely no substitute for hard work.

    Richie SamboraRichie Sambora quote #5
  2. Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere…

    Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville quote #9
  3. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of California. There's a perfectly ordinary English sentence. How did that happen!? Do you know how that happened? Cause …

    Dylan MoranDylan Moran quote #26