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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.
I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.
If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.
Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can
The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.
The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.