Working So Hard Quotes

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
  They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

  Seth Godin

  Delight, Skeptic, Believer

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• Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

  Paul Hawken

  Luck, Crafts, Break

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, Simon & Schuster

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• There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

  Andy Grove

  People, Littles, Achieve

  "Andy Grove's Last Stand". Interview with Kerry A. Dolan, www.forbes.com. January 11, 2008.

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• Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.

  Steve Burns

  Responsibility, Kids, Long

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• I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

  Marcia Cross

  Tired, Past, Years

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• I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

  Aly Raisman

  Next Day, Normal, Break

  "Aly Raisman, Olympic Gymnast, Gets An Adorable Prom Proposal" by Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

  Charles Duhigg

  Fighting, Focus, Decision

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Moving, Past, Years

  "Lewinsky feels betrayed by Clinton". www.today.com. June 25, 2004.

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• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is an acting role within itself...I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't. With that comes an understanding of how to offer the same opportunities to other artists. ... In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music. ... I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. ... I'm a younger Morgan Freeman. ... I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

  Usher

  Real, Opportunity, Artist

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• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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• I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

  James Worthy

  Motivational, Basketball, Parent

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• If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

  David Guetta

  Artist, Play, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Able

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

  Eric Schmidt

  Phones, Google, Want

  "Google's Schmidt: Android Leads the iPhone" by Stephen Shankland, www.cnet.com. December 07, 2011.

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• It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

  Misha Collins

  Nice, Recognition, Yeah

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dancer, Chinese, Groups

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• I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

  Usher

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• If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Awards, White Privilege, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Crazy, Ideas, Forever

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• But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, College, Together

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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