Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Monica Seles

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

John Woo

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

John Wooden

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

John Wooden

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

John Wooden

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

John Wooden

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

John Wooden

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

John Wooden

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

John Wooden

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

John Ruskin

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Eric Kripke

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Peyton Manning

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

Peter Dinklage

Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

Marlon Wayans

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

Marlee Matlin

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Maria Sharapova

When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.

Maria Sharapova

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Maria Sharapova

I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.

Max Planck

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

May Sarton

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time...

Norman Finkelstein

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Noel Clarke

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Nolan Bushnell

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

Nolan Bushnell

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

Nolan Bushnell

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

Noel Coward

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

John Doolittle

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

John Carpenter

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

Joel Edgerton

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Joel McHale

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.