working hard Quotes

″Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. As a college professor, I’ve seen this as one lesson so many kids ignore, always to their detriment:You’ve got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work.″

“Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.”

“There are days when the close attention I must give to details chafes my spirit, and the thought that I must spend hours reading a few chapters, while in the world without other girls are laughing and singing and dancing, makes me rebellious; but soon I recover my buoyancy and laugh the discontent out of my heart.”

“When an idea pops into our head and we think, ‘No, this is too crazy,’ that’s the idea we want.”

“Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. ”

“I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”

“The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.”

“When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.”

“I’d always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole – I wasn’t expected to be good so I wasn’t. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good . . . And so I became good.”

“When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it “done.”

“Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them.”

“Leonardo researched until he found the perfect candidate...”

“Do you think I’m a rich man, Comfort, to feed my dog on milk? Not I. I work for what I get.”

“No one ever said that you could work hard – harder even than you ever thought possible – and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.”

″ Together they are determined to find the island of Evertaller ....”

“While they were working, and working hard, some more made a tablecloth out in the yard.”

″‘Al,’ said the bird, ‘are you working too hard? Still struggling and going nowhere? Hmmm? Listen. Have I got a place for you. No worries, no cares- it’s terrific.‘”

“I’m asking you to try working for a change. At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool’s dream world.”

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they’re right on the edge of survival.”

“I feel sick, and if I pedal much harder my bike will take to the air and fly.”

“The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims.”

″‘Emil, Emil! You know perfectly well I can’t afford to get you another suit.’ And once again he remembers- too late- how she works all day to put food on the table and so he can go to school.”