Quotes About Diligence

Be laborious," it says, "like the Star, and procure the light of the Sages, and hide yourself from the Stupid Profane and the Ambitious, and be like the Owl, which sees only by night, and hides itself from treacherous curiosity.

Lascian poi alle volte le cose più imbrogliate di prima. Quelli che fanno il bene, lo fanno all'ingrosso: quand'hanno provata quella soddisfazione, n'hanno abbastanza e non si viglion seccare a star dietro a tutte le conseguenze: ma coloro che hanno quel gusto di fare il male, ci mettono più diligenza, ci stanno dietro fino alla fine, non prendono mai requie, perché hanno qualche canchero che li rode.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.

A gude paymaster ne'er wants hands to work.

fiecare pisalog e un atentator, dar lenea activa e cea mai perfida forma a genocidului.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

I am happy with my work and I think my hard work didn't get wasted.

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.

I train hard every day in the gym and on the pitch to show what I can do on a match day.

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.

I was always told failure to plan is planning to fail, so I've always been a huge guy on planning.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.