Quotes About Effort

In regular tournaments, players throw in the towel occasionally for one reason or another.

Try as I might, I cannot fall asleep before 2am. I sometimes try, putting tea towels over the clocks and forcing myselt to go to bed at 12.30am. I never win.

I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I've ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There's no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn't.

I track some long hours.

Controlling mosquitos is tough. It's not quick; it's not easy. It requires work day in and day out to track where mosquitos are and to apply safely the appropriate mosquito control methods.

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

When you get to a team whether you're traded, drafted, or signed, you owe it to the organization and your teammates to give it your all.

When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.