Quotes About Effort

I am much more interested in the process than results.

If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

It's great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn't sit right with me when you don't win it.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.

I think efforts sometimes don't get rewarded.

I tried my hardest and people rewarded me with applause.

When you win the league, it's different. Saying it is one thing, but when you win it, you know all your hard work for the season has just been rewarded.

You work hard, you'll be rewarded.

Every day, just enjoy it. It goes by so fast. But put the work in and you'll be rewarded.

I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

You cannot expect rewards without putting in hard work.

If there was one thing I tried to instil in my children as they were growing up, it was that you get nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get any rewards. That applies in music or whatever you choose to do. The same goes in relationships; you will only get back what you put in.

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.

When you work hard, you get great rewards after that.

It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

It actually is a lot easier to get rich than one would think.

Sometimes I get lazy, I want to get rid of that.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

People have this fantasy that it's all just an easy ride if you know someone important. Well, it's not. I've known lots of people in this business - and it hasn't really done anything for me.

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.