Hard Work Quotes - Page 13

• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Sharon Stone

  Friends, Stars, Believe

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• I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

  Wanda Sykes

  Energy, Steps, Comedy

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• I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

  Matt Taibbi

  Growing Up, Kids, Way

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• I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

  Yani Tseng

  Dream, Play, Focus

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Two, Trying, Different

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• I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, People, Want

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  J. C. Watts

  School, Responsibility, Important

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• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  Jack Welch

  Ideas, Forever, Terrible

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

  Ron White

  Age, Fans, Hearing

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• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Jobs, Men, Smell

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• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

  Brian Wilson

  Guy, Genius, Hard

  Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks (2005). “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece”, p.73, Omnibus Press

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• Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Winning, Tough Times, Done

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• Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Long, Special

  "Vishy Anand: 'I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm'". Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, People, Photographer

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• As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mother, Grateful, Sometimes

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  Kailash Kher

  Inspiration, Men, Keys

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• Spreading an idea is hard work.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Ideas, Hard

  "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

  Gary Soto

  World, Sparrows, Enough

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• There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

  Betty Smith

  Country, Teacher, Father

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Want, Moral

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• Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first.

  Lisa Jewell

  Pain, People, Wrong Friends

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• For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Ohio, America

  "Clinton wins key primaries, CNN projects; McCain clinches nod". March 5, 2008.

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

  Sue Grafton

  Independent, Thinking, People

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