Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Plant

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Robert Littell

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

Sarah Zettel

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

Sarah Lewis

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

Sarah Kay

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Sarah Kay

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

Sara Gruen

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

Sandy Duncan

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

Sanaa Lathan

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Robert Greene

With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.

Ray Wise

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

Robert De Niro

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Tupac Shakur

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

Tupac Shakur

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self..

Tracy Kidder

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Vera Wang

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Vince Gilligan

Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.

Vince Lombardi

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Robert Gottlieb

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Rudy Giuliani

Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.

Sam Wyly

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Sam Altman

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Sam Altman

Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

Robert Jordan

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Robert Johnson

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

Vince Young

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

Will Smith

The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.

Walter Chrysler

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Virginia Woolf

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

Samuel Smiles

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.