Quotes About Effort

With 'Black Panther,' it was like stepping up to the plate, working crazy hours, and still bringing your best to the table every time.

I'd rather not talk about myself in terms of stepping up a level or things like that because I prefer to do my work during the week and then show my best in the game.

You don't know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps.

You take your steps, you don't skip through and try to go straight to the top, that's just disrespectful.

Of course, people have tried to stereotype me... But it's very short-lived if you realise that you're only as new as your newest film... You have to look beyond the period of initial reactions and recognise that there's a bigger body of work and an effort to do something bigger.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Care and diligence bring luck.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.