Quotes About Effort

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

You don't have to always win by scoring five or six.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

But size isn't everything - effort and intensity is, especially in the fourth quarter.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.