Quotes About Effort

Some people are born with talents, some people have to work on that.

I just had to get in front of the right people to show my talents off and do what I do best. That's play hard all the time.

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.

I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.

Talk is cheap; play the game.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

I talked a bunch of crap for years and then went out and worked hard. That's the extent of it. There's no magical genius to it, as much as I'd like to think there is. I'm just a guy who works hard - and I hope guys are challenged by that.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

I think everyone talks about talent. It's really one of the most overused terms. It comes down to, do you play, and do you win? Talent is one factor, but certainly not the only one.

Literally everybody talks about 56 percent completion percentage. It gets brought up in every meeting. It's something I'm trying to work on.

Everybody talks about talent. But talent is not only athleticism. It's not only tennis shots. It's everything. It's the attitude you have about life.

There are some people saying I'm a tweener - not tall enough for a power forward and not fast enough for a three. But I feel like if I go out there and play hard, it will eliminate all that.

It's not easy to serve, because I'm not that tall, but I'm trying to be more consistent and to deliver heavier serves.

It's not everything to be tall.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'

We want to see companies making a good faith effort and putting some tangible initiatives behind their pledge for diversity.

You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11