Quotes About Effort

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'

It's not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That's something that people don't really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

When I go onto the field, I will always give 100% for my team, irrespective of who we are playing against.

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

Ultimately, the one who scores the winning run is a finisher, irrespective of whether he's an opening batsman or No 11. What matters is how much you are contributing. If you can win matches for your team, you are a finisher.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.

I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Practice precedes perfection.