Quotes About Effort

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

I like to work and am a focused person.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

I pretty much work all the time.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

You work for whatever you get in life.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.