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Quotes About Effort

The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.
~ Bruce Riedel
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
~ Bruce Vento
In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.
~ Buddy Rice
Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.
~ Carrie Jones
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
~ Chili Davis
When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.
~ Chrisse Feros
We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.
~ Christian Siriano
You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!
~ Christopher Tin
I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
~ Chuck Close
I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.
~ Conor Oberst
To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.
~ Cornelius Plantinga
Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.
~ Craig Newmark
Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.
~ Cynthia Lewis
I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.
~ Dana Gould
No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
~ Danica Patrick
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.
~ Danielle Steel
The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.
~ Dave Barry
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
~ David Halberstam
I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.
~ David Ortiz
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.
~ Debra Hamel
The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.
~ Denis Waitley
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness
~ Diane Keaton
Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
~ Dorothea Lange
All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time
~ Jasinda Wilder