Quotes About Hard work

Si supieseis cuánto trabajo costó, no lo llamaríais ingenio

las cosas que he aprendido es que los líderes son aquellos individuos que hacen lo que los fracasados no están dispuestos a hacer aunque tampoco sea de su gusto. Tienen la disciplina necesaria para hacer lo que saben que es importante y correcto, en lugar de lo que es fácil y divertido.

La dedicación y la disciplina ofrecen mejores resultados que la brillantez y el talento innato en el día a día.

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.

Society has sold us a series of mistruths," The Spellbinder continued. "That pleasure is preferable to the terrifying yet majestic fact that all possibility requires hard work, regular reinvention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbors of safety, daily.

Outliers: The Story of Success

Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.

Sweat is a sign. Of what? Of moral feeling.

The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small office off to the side. During busy periods, the aides sometimes wrote and copied one hundred letters per day, an exhausting grind

It is not easy to part with the wealth we have accumulated after years of hard work and difficulty

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

Personas inteligentes que trabajen duro, presten atención y sean capaces de pensar de modo diferente.

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

Qwilleran worked hard and fast at the office that day, while the clerk in the Feature Department intercepted all phone calls and uninvited visitors with the simple explanation that permits no appeal, no argument, no exceptions. "Sorry, he's on deadline.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

We have been conditioned by today's advertising to respond instantly to the word housewife with the word drudgery. ... A creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who having chosen (or have found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas this role and to work as hard as if she were aiming for the presidency of corporation. Functioning as a professional in all areas of marriage is the essence of being a creative counterpart.

Sooner or later, given enough whiskey, hard work, and women, he'd have been able to put Emma Chalmers out of his mind. Now everything had changed. He couldn't leave her to that fool of a hypocrite she planned to marry; if he did, the blue fire in her eyes would falter and die one day in the not too distant future. Outside

Lily was left feeling disgruntled and confused. She didn't like Caleb Halliday. He was rude, arrogant, and insufferable. His intentions toward her were not at all honorable. So why had she agreed to have anything further to do with him? Lily sighed. Because she was starved for a little magic, that was why. Because one wonderful night was not too much to ask out of a lifetime of hard work.

No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.