Quotes About Effort

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

I don't think I'm easy, but I think I'm quite a good worker.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.