Quotes About Effort

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.

I think one of the things that the people, the fans, know about me is that every time I step in the ring, I give everything I have to entertain everyone that's spent their hard-earned dollars on a ticket for a WWE event. I think that's apparent.

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

You get into such a routine of trying so hard each day and racing between 180 and 220 km., and as soon as you stop, it's weird, but you start to seize up. So it's easier if you keep the body ticking over. You just feel better for it come race day.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're getting work done. We're going hard. If it's reps for the scout team, we're giving them good reps. If we're getting reps for the first team as a tight end group as a whole, we try and go out there and put our best out there as a group effort.

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

The reason why success comes so easily and naturally for one person, and is a struggle for someone else, is essentially this: one person has organized his or her mind to think the way he wants, and another thinks against his or her own interests.

Remember, the only way to avoid a "no" is not to try

A business plan is a worthless piece of paper without someone rolling their sleeves up, getting their hands dirty and turning it into a living, breathing, operating business.

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly

In fact, the opposite of work isn't play - it's idleness. That's

If you're not getting nos you're not trying.

The opposite of success isn't failure, it's doing nothing.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

To take a task that could be accomplished by pushing a button or flipping a switch, and instead complete it only after spending a full day grunting and groaning from the physical effort, and all in the name of the beauty of sweat and the joys of labor—now that is a stupid idea.

The exertion it takes to get back in shape when we are out of shape is arguably more than it takes to stay in shape...