Quotes About Effort

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

People think the restaurant industry is hard and takes no prisoners, but so does baking, so does retail and so does bus driving. You can't blame your job.

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

That's why I enjoy Davis Cup, and I really enjoyed college tennis. It's very special. You want to go out there and compete your hardest, because you don't want to let anyone down. You want to absolutely give it your all for your team. And that's sort of the mentality I've taken to pro tennis.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

You stay sharp. You go back into the gym. You work, put that work in, get that conditioning up, you lift. You pretty much know as a pro athlete what you need to do to get yourself back. But none of that, for me, means as much as playing.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

I try to learn with experience. This is my process of learning, so I try my 100 per cent.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.