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Quotes About Diligence

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.
~ Teri Hatcher
In order to be great you have to continue to put in the work.
~ Mookie Betts
I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.
~ Akira Toriyama
I've got to keep showing up every day and putting in work.
~ Julio Jones
When it comes to work, I am focused. I work like a maniac.
~ Anushka Sharma
Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.
~ David Pratt
It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.
~ Zanny Minton Beddoes
We were raised with real values about the importance of work and respect for the people.
~ Antoine Arnault
Have you done your work?" she asked. "Dare you stay here a few minutes?" Becky lost her breath again. "Here, miss? Me?" Sara ran to the door, opened it, and looked out and listened. "No one is anywhere about," she explained. "If your bedrooms are finished, perhaps you might stay a tiny while. I thought--perhaps--you might like a piece of cake." The next ten minutes seemed to Becky like a sort of delirium.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
~ Frank Herbert
How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door?
~ Frank Herbert
Minutele de studiu sînt chez??ia succesului. Nu te gr?bi, aÅŸteapt? s? fii sigur.
~ Frank Herbert
looked for signs of slackness and especially for areas of responsibility that were running too smoothly. The Senior Watchdog had her own watchwords: "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
~ Frank Herbert
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?
~ Franz Kafka
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
~ Franz Kafka
he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work
~ Franz Kafka
There are two cardinal human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka
Orice om poate fi pentru o vreme în incapacitatea de-a lucra,dar atunci e momentul cel mai potrivit pentru a-È›i aduce aminte de realiz?rile lui anterioare È™i a te gândi c? mai târziu,de-ndat? ce dificultatea va fi învins?,va depune cu atât mai mult? sârguin?? È™i str?danie în munca lui.
~ Franz Kafka
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
~ Henry Hudson
I've been really diligent about going and getting screenings and mammograms, and so when I got the scare I said, 'Thank God that I went!' You can't blow it off. It's very important.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
I've learned an enormous amount about the business itself, about what it takes - the stamina and the dedication and the diligence - to succeed out here... And I'm very, very thankful, and I have a wonderful career, but it's hard work... I'm very comfortable with who I am as an actor now and excited to try all kinds of things.
~ Nicholas D'Agosto
It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
He believed "the leading rule"21 for any lawyer was "diligence." Lincoln counseled, "Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today.… Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
~ Ronald C. White Jr.