Quotes About Effort

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard as I can to act like I'm 65, but it's very difficult.

If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

I have always been an attacking bowler, but I am trying my best to learn every day.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

The billions watching and following the Premier League don't tune in to see you in training. They want to know what you can do in a match.

On a job, there's so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research... I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

SIXX: A.M. is a passion project. I think when you do things like that and put your heart into them and do your best and don't necessarily put them on a marketing grid, that's when things turn out the best.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.