Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Young

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

Vince Young

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

Will Smith

The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.

Walter Chrysler

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Samuel Smiles

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

Samuel Larsen

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

Samuel J. Palmisano

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

Sally Ride

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

Ryan Seacrest

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

Ryan Reynolds

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

Wanda Sykes

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

Vinny Guadagnino

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Wayne Dyer

I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.

Robert Johnson

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

Sandra Bullock

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Ronnie Wood

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

Roger Ebert

I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

Wil Wheaton

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

Yanni

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

Wladimir Klitschko

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!

Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Yvon Chouinard

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Twyla Tharp

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Walter Lippmann

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

William Feather

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Boyd

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

Yohan Blake

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Winifred Holtby

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Vince Gilligan

Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.

Vince Lombardi

Hard work is the price we must pay for success