Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conor Oberst

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

Ann Richards

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Anne Lamott

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

Albert Bandura

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Annie Leibovitz

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Clint Howard

People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

Clint Black

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

Danny Masterson

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

Daniel Cudmore

People always talk about how diet is such a massive part of training, but they think that if they cheat all the time they can somehow out-do the damage in the gym. The key is to keep it balanced and stay on the diet and do the hard work, and when you push through your body will really start to respond.

David Mamet

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

David Copperfield

All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

David Copperfield

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

Dylan McDermott

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

Douglas Adams

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Donna Summer

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

Donnie Wahlberg

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

Donald Hall

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Don Rickles

I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

Cristela Alonzo

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

Creed Bratton

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Conway Twitty

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Countee Cullen

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Cory Monteith

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Cory Doctorow

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

Courteney Cox

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Dustin Pedroia

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

Dustin Lynch

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

Analeigh Tipton

I would love someone to follow me around with a boom box so I could have a soundtrack to record my daily moments. That would be awesome! I also wouldn't complain if I had someone doing my hair - I have a hard time with my hair.

Amanda Schull

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.