Quotes on Working So Hard

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. _x000D_ They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.