Quotes About Effort

I never insisted that I was a good student.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.

Do I see people working harder than me? I can't imagine that but if I do it inspires me to work harder.

It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.

The best thing about being a good girl on TV is that the audience loves you back instantly. You don't have to make extra effort to make them empathize with you.

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

When 'Mohenjo Daro' came to me, I decided to go by my gut instincts. If something big comes up, you need to give it that time and effort.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

People don't come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.

I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

I have found a perfect balance between work and social activities and I intend to give both my best.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly.

The good Lord gave me something, and he gave me intensity. He gave me a body, and he gave me the work and how hard I worked the body the way that it was.

If you don't play with intensity in this league, you're going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don't have a chance.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

It's more than just playing hard. You have to maintain concentration and you have to combine that with your intensity level.

Obviously nobody takes preseason lightly. But there's not the same intensity, there's not the same focus.