Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Griffin III

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

Robert Griffin III

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

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.

Sarah Dessen

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

Sandra Brown

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Sandra Bullock

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Sandra Bullock

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Ronnie Wood

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

Roger Ebert

I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

Robert Sheckley

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

Robert Smith

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Robert Powell

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

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.

Satchel Paige

Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.

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!

Sandra Oh

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

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

Vince Young

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

Vince Young

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

Walter Lippmann

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.