What does the quote there are no shortcuts to any place worth going mean

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

12 read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. why is elementary school success an indicator of graduation rates? why is this sentence not a thesis statement? it is not a debatable topic. it is a question it is an opinion it is not a fact mark this and retum

What is the main idea of this paragraph? asap