Work Your Way Quotes

• Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

• Redd Foxx / Comedian

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

• Matthew Mcconaughey / Actor

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'

• Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

• Scott Mcgillivray

Trial and error does not work in real estate. It's way too expensive to learn from your own mistakes, you need to learn from others' mistakes.

• John Matuszak / Actor

The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they'll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.

• Twyla Tharp / Dancer

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

• G-Eazy / Rapper

I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.

• David Knopfler / Guitarist

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

• Neil Peart / Musician

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

• Jake Arrieta

It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

• Jessica Brown Findlay / Actress

On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.

• Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter

When you have to pass through a couple of kids with Uzis on your way out of Jerusalem, you don't forget those images. Getting out of your comfort zone is healthy. It's one thing to hear about how things work in other countries, but it's another thing to be there.