Quotes About Effort

If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

Nothing comes easy in life, but politics is incredibly difficult.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

It takes a good 35-40 minutes to do my iconic ponytail every day.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I may play poorly at times, but I'll always try to give my best effort.

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

From the things I've read, I think I've been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don't put an effort into winning. I think that's completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am.

I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.

Chances to win games won't always come in the box, so that's one thing I've got to work on: positioning myself outside the box and, obviously, taking shots.

A lot of offensive rebounding is a lot of desire, a little bit positioning.

I don't want to think results, I don't want to think positions. I just want to come in, do my job, and we'll see where we end up. I think that's the best way to look at it, because then you start focusing on the outcome rather than focusing on the work that it takes to get to that outcome.

I have to be in the right positions and create the right runs as much as I can.

I want to make contributions that help us win Test matches rather than put us in positions where we have to play extremely well to win.

I'm a nice guy. I'm trying to be positive. I've got my own things, I'm kinda crazy but I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm trying to be good and I'm doing the best I can. Just like everybody else.

Positive attitude plus effort equals performance.