Quotes About Effort

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

I just have to play smart and play the best I can. I think that will be plenty good enough.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

I've got an iPod but I don't even use it. It's just that, you know, you've got to like plug it up to the computer. And then you've got to download songs. And put them in your playlist. I'd rather just get the CD and pop it in. I'm cool with the Discman. The Walkman.

You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

There is no point in being lazy.

When I go out onto the pitch, I don't do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.

I was always good at gym! Gym classes were good, but school really wasn't my thing, but I did it, got through it. It's definitely important.