Quotes About Effort

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

We lifted up and then bobbed."Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)"It's hard." (Kitty)"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)

Working on it.

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

Erasing is exercise for the hands

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!

Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough.