Quotes About Effort

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

With my speed and my hard-hit-ball percentage, there's no reason I shouldn't hit .300.

I kind of have one speed that I know, and that's to go as hard as I can.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

In an 82-game season, you're going to have some dry spells where goals are harder to come by, and other times they're just going to come in bundles.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

There are a lot of games out there these days that you either know how to play it or don't, or if you spend enough time pounding away at it, you're going to beat it eventually.

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from them made me realise the amount of effort they put in and how they constantly jostle between life and death.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.

There's a lot of sets where morale is low; people are just a little too mellow, and that's infectious. So when someone calls 'Action,' you have to spike your energy up and fight against the current of the room.

I did give leg-spin a try as well. I used to play a lot of under-arm cricket in the streets of Chennai. I can spin the legbreak a mile. But when I tried it, a lot of people discouraged me saying it was very difficult.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.