2,968 Quotes About Hard-work

  • Author Edsger Dijkstra
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    Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better

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  • Author Edsger Dijkstra
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    Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

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  • Author Elijah Dukes
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    I mean it's just like all the hard work is starting to pay off now. I'm taking pitches and I'm looking good. It's like I've been here before. ... Patience at the plate makes a good hitter. Everybody can't be a Vladimir Guerrero where you can just hit any ball out of the ballpark. You've got to go in there and hit the pitcher's mistakes.

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  • Author Eric Davis
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    The kids can see that hard work is paying off. They didn't care what people in other towns thought. They believed in the 12 guys in the locker room.

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    ... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

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  • Author James Denton
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    Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

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  • Author John Desko
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    First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good lacrosse team they were. They don't have any weaknesses. We told the guys all week long, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and work hard to get this one. Congrats to them for their season.

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