Quotes About Effort

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Each of us at any time and space is doing the very best we can with what we have.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you're doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don't do this.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.