Quotes About Effort

if one has given the whole of himself to becoming a Master, he will do what is necessary to become it. And it will be a joy for him. It will be an intense journey. And peaceful the entire way. Hard work and practice are for those who try to become that which they secretly believe that it is difficult for them to become.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

Interviews aren't hard to do, just time consuming that's all.

I always wanted to direct and write a movie, but I thought that I didn't really have it in me. I tried to write fiction and humorous short stories, and some were considered successful, but it was always a huge effort for a small reward. I was always intimidated by the process.

With age you tend to become intolerant and it becomes difficult to give your best in trying circumstances.

I will try to do my best in training and in games if I'm introduced.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?

I think when you invest a lot, you earn your rewards.

We care so much about the sport that we invest everything we have into it.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

I was filled with angst all the time, but when it came down to it, I dove into what was in front of me, and I always did my best. I invested 100 percent. And that's what saved me.

I've always invested in myself, whether it was marketing or putting an album together and paying for radio. Spending eight months to a year working on one single to try to get it where you know it's a hit and you can take it into the top 20.

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

You can't attain anything without investing time.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Making a film is not about one person. It involves a whole lot of permutations and combinations. Everything has to fall in the right place.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

I do my research the same as everyone else - I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I'm male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

Every film is special, irrespective of the result.