Quotes About Effort

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called 'fun'.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.