Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.
Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.
Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.
The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn't be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn't about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.
Love the necessary hard work.
People always talk about how diet is such a massive part of training, but they think that if they cheat all the time they can somehow out-do the damage in the gym. The key is to keep it balanced and stay on the diet and do the hard work, and when you push through your body will really start to respond.
Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.
If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.
Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.
A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.
Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
When you work hard...it's only fair that you party hard.
Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.
I believe our Presidents work hard and it's the loneliest job in the world.
The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.
I set out to work hard, not to get rich.
