Quotes About Effort

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently.

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

If the film is a hit, people talk about the hard work, but if it fails, they may not notice, but I give my best for all films.

If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.

I don't really notice the loss of one kilogram when I run, but I do when it's more than one.

To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I'm here to say that it's possible.

I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.

If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

You get notoriety when you fight.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.