Quotes About Effort

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

All I can promise is I'll do my very best. I'll try as hard as I can.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

I never promise something; I always say that I will try. Because if you promise something and you don't do it, you will always be under pressure.

You can't promise to win a game, but you can want to win a game.

All I can ever promise is that I will do my very best.

I promise hard work and I will do everything to help my team mates.

Nothing's promised. You got to go out there and earn it.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.

It doesn't matter what division you are in. You must prove that you deserve to be where you are every game. The proof is not offered with words, but with action.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

I guess that is what I remember of 'Mezzanine': it was a proper struggle.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.

Strikers get periods like this, periods when you do everything right and others when you can't do anything properly.

I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.