Quotes About Effort

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

I feel like I've got a process swing. It takes a long time to get to where it needs to be and to stay there. The advantage - if I'm healthy - more often than not, it tends to stay there.

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

There is no shortcuts. Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.

You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.