I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.
. . . People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give you extra return just because you want it. You have to be very shrewd and hard working to get a little extra. It's so much easier to reduce your wants. There are a lot of smart people and a lot of them cheat, so it's not easy to win.
Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique and likable. We all have things that we would change if we could. Even people who we think have it all, don't. Nobody has it all because no one is perfect. We all realize this and yet continue to criticize and insult ourselves. Now is the time to stop this nonsense! Change what you can change and accept the rest as a necessary part of your own unique humanity. Make peace with who you are.
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.
I love the military. They don’t get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.
Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.
People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.
I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.
Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. . . . She's not the woman for the White House.
If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in power in Mississippi still seem to be invested in these very American myths. "The individual is alone. " "We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. " "We create success for ourselves, and if we work hard enough then we will succeed and have success beyond our wildest dreams. " I think that we need to do away with that kind of thinking and be more aware of history and how the history of this place bears in the present and how it affects people.
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.