Quotes About Effort

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

I used to watch a lot of people and think, 'You're not dedicated.' It's half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren't putting the effort in.

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

The NFL stands for 'Not For Long,' so you gotta get it while it lasts.

David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.