Quotes About Effort

Whatever we put on the ice, we just need to have good performance from all the players.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

It would be ideal to have someone scoring a goal in every game but that is not easy.

You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.

Ideally, I like to make my films within 30-40 days, because if it takes longer than that, everyone involved loses interest.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.

My life is written about as though I've had this idyllic ending. But a marriage is something you have to work at.

If I could turn it on like a faucet then I think it would be kind of unearned. I feel like you need to struggle a little bit to make anything good.

Once people are made aware of things that they were previously ignorant of, I think people are a lot more willing to really try.

You can't run away from the fact that you cannot ignore hard work.

I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or a female, you're working an immense amount of hours, and you can't do everything. You can't have complete work/life balance.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I'm not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider it immoral not to take them.

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I do know one thing - while success has a lot to do with hard work, luck also plays an important role.

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

I think one of the most important things for a young player's development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.