Working Very Hard Quotes

• Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Work, Important

  The Academy Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  98 Copy quote

• We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Trying, Crime

  Source: www.esquire.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Perfect, Band, Wells

  3 Copy quote

• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Country, Father, People

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Teacher, Children, Simple

  Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

  Trey Songz

  Hard Work, Pride, Careers

  23 Copy quote

• I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

  Michael Burry

  Mind, Landscape, Belief

  41 Copy quote

• I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

  John Hewson

  Stress, Careers, Wife

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

  Curt Weldon

  Enemy, Trying, Tanks

  3 Copy quote

• We do have to worry about North Korea. They continue to develop their nuclear weapons capability, and they're working very hard on their ballistic missile capability.

  Hillary Clinton

  Korea, Worry, Nuclear

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Player, League, England

  19 Copy quote

• For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Hard

  Joan Didion (1970). “Play it as it Lays”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

  Dana Milbank

  Daughter, Smart, Ocean

  "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.

  Livingston Taylor

  Guitar, Japan, Color

  Interview with Ms. Nanami, livingstontaylor.com. December 15, 2006.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've directed our defense community headed by our great general now Secretary [James] Mattis, he's over there now working very hard to submit a plan for the defeat of ISIS, a group that celebrates the murder and torture of innocent people in large sections of the world, used to be a small group, now it's in large sections of the world.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, People, Community

  Source: www.esquire.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the quickest and most effective ways to do this is in isolation, with very few distractions, working very hard at it and spending all your time and efforts at changing your mind.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Effort, Mind, Firsts

  Source: fpmt.org

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

  Ian Bogost

  Sports, Fun, Night

  Source: app.longform.org

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Survival, Looks

  Source: www.hbook.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm consciously working very hard at not eating.

  Scott Raab

  Eating, Hard

  Source: www.esquire.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really like Barack Obama. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. He's a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he's just done something that's amazing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Odds

  396 Copy quote

• I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Reality, Edification

  10 Copy quote

• Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Boys, Eyebrows

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

  John Wooden

  Team, Opponents, Defeat

  8 Copy quote