Quotes About Effort

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.