Quotes About Effort

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

One-on-one, you have to be able to put your head down and get stuck in.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I used to work eight hours a day and squeeze studies in whenever I could.

The studio is just a labor. Getting on stage is the reward.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.