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Greatness isn't a gift; it's a grind. Respect the process.
The details matter. It's worth sweating them. The difference between good and exceptional is often hidden there.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.
You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.
There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.
There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.
Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.
Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I also learned at a young age that success is not given, it is earned and that has always been something that motivates me.
Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth itDon't wish it was easier... wish you were betterDon't ask for less challenge... ask for more skillDon't ask for less problems... and for more wisdomIt's the challenge that makes the experience.Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.To wish them away is to wish your life away.
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
I've never lived in a building without my name on it.
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.