2,968 Quotes About Hard-work

  • Author Jennifer Lopez
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    [Having perosonal trainer for the movie 'The back-up plan'] I felt like I had just given birth. He was like, "You can't eat anything but this. You've got to do what I say." So along with doing the film, I did this kind of disciplined workout regimen, because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff, and I wanted to be true to character, because I'm Method. But it took a lot of hard work to get there. You can rest assured in the fact that it's all gone now.

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  • Author Jennifer Lopez
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    When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

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  • Author Jerry Lewis
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    You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

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  • Author Joanna Lumley
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    Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

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  • Author John Leguizamo
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    It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

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  • Author John Leguizamo
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    Voices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember them and that takes work. With Sid, I needed to make sure you could understand what he is saying, his enunciation. Sometimes I couldn't even say my own name [his name] in his voice. It sounds like 'Shid', it sounds a bit like he has a lisp.

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  • Author John Lewis
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    Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.

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  • Author John Livingston
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    Making this list is a testament to the hard work our team has put forward over the past several years in establishing secure asset tracking and computer theft recovery as a new product category for computer security. Our current objective is to more than double our number of subscribers in less than two years, and we believe that we have the right people, product suite, operational platform and distribution partners to achieve that goal and remain one of Canada's fastest growing companies.

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  • Author Jonah Lehrer
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    It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

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