Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.
To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
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