Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

John Steinbeck

A fallow field is a sin.

John Phillips

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Nick Cave

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Scott Eastwood

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.

Seth Godin

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Seth Godin

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

Seth Godin

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Seth Godin

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Tom DeLonge

When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.

Toks Olagundoye

Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

Slobodan Milosevic

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

Sidney Lumet

All good work requires self-revelation.

Michael Moore

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

Michael Moore

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Michael Faraday

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Michael Bloomberg

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Michael Bloomberg

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

Michael Hussey

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

Michael Badnarik

The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.

Ravi Zacharias

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Ray Bradbury

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

Randy Pausch

I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.

Randy Pausch

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

Randy Pausch

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder,

Randy Pausch

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

Emraan Hashmi

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

Emmanuelle Chriqui

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Emmitt Smith

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

James Corden

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

Jacque Fresco

We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers