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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• 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 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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• The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the "Sam" character. And it brought tears to my eyes, because you're working so hard to make something happen and you're just in there, and you're delirious with sleep deprivation. To see it work, to see his reaction, made it all worthwhile.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Character, Sleep, Eye

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• I've seen so many of my friends and collaborators struggle and face the challenge of feeling like what they're working so hard to create and put into the world isn't important or appreciated... it's like being in love with someone who won't give you the time of day.

  Kate Brown

  Struggle, Being In Love, Giving

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

  Anthea Turner

  Lucky, Celebrate, Contracts

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

  William Monahan

  Directors, Facts, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.

  Scott Raab

  Thinking, Leader, Looks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Done, Sometimes, Realizing

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Order, Foundation, Want

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Community, Small Business, Our Community

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