Hard Work Quotes

#1. Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69) #Quote by Injap Sia

#2. Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey. #Quote by Urijah Faber

#3. Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise
to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things
in order to make it come out right. #Quote by Kathleen Norris

#4. Believe in your dreams and work hard for them. #Quote by Wanderlei Silva

#5. The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. #Quote by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#6. Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it. #Quote by Bo Bice

#7. So often we look for a magic secret or new technique that will produce tremendous returns and results with little or no work. Those seeking this magic secret will never find it - for the secret to success is to continually live and apply basic, simple fundamentals over a long period of time. #Quote by Cameron C. Taylor

#8. Be confident in the work you did to prepare for the race. Take a look back at your training logs to remind yourself that you've done everything possible to prepare. The race is the fun part where you get to see the hard work pay off. Enjoy it. #Quote by Desiree Linden

#9. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. #Quote by Lane Kirkland

#10. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. #Quote by Sarah Palin

#11. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try. #Quote by Barack Obama

#12. You cannot reap where you have not sown. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe. #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

#14. This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool. #Quote by Leila Sales

#15. Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things. #Quote by Erin Boyle

#16. If you ever think you might want a career in politics, Inspector, think again. It's merely a continuous and mostly vain attempt to keep several groups of people with opposing needs and agendas happy, and knowing in your heart of hearts that you cannot, and being lambasted for you hard work in the bargain. #Quote by Jasper Fforde

#17. I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.' #Quote by Sebastian Thrun

#18. As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter. #Quote by Leonard Boswell

#19. In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#20. The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent. #Quote by Garry Kasparov

#21. I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. #Quote by Diane Cilento

#22. On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM) #Quote by Nanci McGraw

#23. I was glad to put the whole thing behind me, because I wanted every child, regardless of race, to be able to look at my Worlds win and say, I can dream big too. I wanted them to know that following your dreams - not just in gymnastics, but in everything - shouldn't have anything to do with the color of your skin. It should only be about finding the discipline and the courage to do the hard work. #Quote by Simone Biles

#24. Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. #Quote by Manoj Arora

#25. So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#26. Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible. #Quote by James Frey

#27. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. #Quote by Sidney Altman

#28. Hard work makes for what I reckon you like in a man, but don't understand. As I look back over my life--an' let me say, young fellar, it's been a tough one--what I remember most an' feel best over are the hardest jobs I ever did, an' those that cost the most sweat an' blood." As #Quote by Zane Grey

#29. For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end. #Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

#30. I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. #Quote by Yuriy Tarnawsky

#31. From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. #Quote by Dirk Benedict

#32. The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#33. Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. #Quote by Misty Copeland

#34. Prayer is always hard work, and often an agony. We sometimes have to wrestle even in order to pray. "When those hours of the day come in which we should be having our prayer-sessions with God, it often appears as though everything has entered into a conspiracy to prevent it." We often wrestle in prayer just to concentrate. "Your thoughts flit back and forth between God and the many pressing duties which await you."226 While God can and will grant times of peace and tranquility, no Christian outgrows the need to struggle and persevere in prayer. #Quote by Timothy Keller

#35. Work hard to make things easier. #Quote by Pete Carril

#36. With a project like Teachers Lounge, you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right. #Quote by Ted Alexandro

#37. At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. #Quote by Susan Wojcicki

#38. Above all else, I want you to know that you are loved and lovable. You will learn this from my words and actions--the lessons on love are in how I treat you and how I treat myself.

I want you to engage with the world from a place of worthiness. You will learn that you are worthy of love, belonging, and joy every time you see me practice self-compassion and embrace my own imperfections.

We will practice courage in our family by showing up, letting ourselves be seen, and honoring vulnerability. We will share our stories of struggle and strength. There will always be room in our home for both.

We will teach you compassion by practicing compassion with ourselves first; then with each other. We will set and respect boundaries; we will honor hard work, hope, and perseverance. Rest and play will be family values, as well as family practices.

You will learn accountability and respect by watching me make mistakes and make amends, and by watching how I ask for what I need and talk about how I feel.

I want you to know joy, so together we will practice gratitude.

I want you to feel joy, so together we will learn how to be vulnerable.

When uncertainty and scarcity visit, you will be able to draw from the spirit that is a part of our everyday life.

Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain, but instead I will sit with you and teach you how to feel it.

We #Quote by Brene Brown

#39. You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard. #Quote by Arthur Godfrey

#40. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. #Quote by Andre Agassi

#41. There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees of pain. Hard work is also a factor. When I abandoned poetry there were so many questions lost to me as well. It remains astonishing to me the degree to which poetry has lost all value and meaning within the conditions of what I loosely refer to as corporate capitalism. Absolutely amazing. #Quote by Jacob Wren

#42. The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible. #Quote by Jencarlos Canela

#43. Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works. #Quote by Kiana Tom

#44. It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded. #Quote by Bert Blyleven

#45. Holiness is the sum of a million little things - the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances. #Quote by Kevin DeYoung

#46. To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change. #Quote by Peter McWilliams

#47. The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. #Quote by Jonathan Haidt

#48. I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard. #Quote by Amy Schumer

#49. Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people. #Quote by John Ralston Saul

#50. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work. #Quote by Booker T. Washington

#51. It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it ... and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. #Quote by Scott Carpenter

#52. If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%. #Quote by Will Smith

#53. Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of it's opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ancillary jobs such as cleaning, caring, and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work' #Quote by Eliza Bennett

#54. People work hard. #Quote by Iain Duncan Smith

#55. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and you overeat. You want friendship and you exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will make them go away. #Quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#56. Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens. #Quote by Ted Cruz

#57. I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work. #Quote by Simon Baker

#58. Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system. The rest is up to you.
It's up to you to educate yourself.
It's up to you to learn speaking skills and people skills.
It's up to you to try (and usually fail, but to try again) all sorts of ventures.
The rest is a combination of hard work, being at the right place ... at the right time ... with the right thing ... oh yes ... and more (never ending) hard work. #Quote by Gene Simmons

#59. I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands. #Quote by Jason Isbell

#60. We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives. #Quote by Nancy Keenan

#61. [Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on. #Quote by William Wilson Morgan

#62. I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do. #Quote by Preity Zinta

#63. When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work. #Quote by Margaret Groos

#64. You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused. #Quote by Emily Alyn Lind

#65. There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech ... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains. #Quote by H.L. Mencken

#66. Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way. #Quote by Tony Romo

#67. Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. #Quote by Dwayne Johnson

#68. We'll get fired for tardiness, or for stealing merchandise and selling it on eBay, or for having a customer complain about the smell of alcohol on our breath, or for taking five thirty-minute restroom breaks per shift. We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we're not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese. These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance - the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach. We #Quote by J.D. Vance

#69. We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. #Quote by Hillary Clinton

#70. During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement with the world around us. We feel fully alive, full of potential and purpose
in other words, we are completely activated as human beings. #Quote by Jane McGonigal

#71. I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work. #Quote by Charles Walters

#72. I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. #Quote by Kate Smith

#73. I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride. #Quote by Wayne Huizenga

#74. Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work. #Quote by Bonnie Prudden

#75. This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules - it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or #Quote by Stephenie Meyer

#76. Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see. #Quote by Eve Ensler

#77. We honor our parents by not accepting as the final equation the most troubling characteristics of our relationship. I decided between my father and me that the sum of our troubles would not be the summation of our lives together. In analysis, you work to turn the ghosts that haunt you into ancestors who accompany you. That takes hard work and a lot of love, but it's the way we lessen the burdens our children have to carry. #Quote by Bruce Springsteen

#78. Beyond infrastructure, the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European-style universal entitlements but a firm safety net, meaning Julia-like treatment for those who really cannot make it on their own--those too young or too old, too mentally or physically impaired, to provide for themselves.
Limited government so conceived has two indispensable advantages. It avoids inexorable European-style national insolvency. And it avoids breeding debilitating individual dependency. It encourages and celebrates character, independence, energy, hard work as the foundations of a free society and a thriving economy--precisely the virtues Obama discounts and devalues in his accounting of the wealth of nations. #Quote by Charles Krauthammer

#79. The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams. #Quote by Barack Obama

#80. To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. #Quote by Oscar Pistorius

#81. Hard work isn't enough. You got to believe #Quote by Derrick Rose

#82. I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades. #Quote by Natasha Bedingfield

#83. Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started! #Quote by Wladimir Klitschko

#84. You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way. #Quote by Ryan Holiday

#85. Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own. #Quote by Alan Menken

#86. Whenever I see an idiot living happily and in comfort, I feel so cheated. All that studying, hard work, competing, learning, taking decisions, job, relationships, stress.... all for nothing but more stress. What a waste #Quote by EverSkeptic

#87. The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work. #Quote by Douglas Wilson

#88. I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good. #Quote by Reggie Miller

#89. My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors. #Quote by Pola Negri

#90. Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it. #Quote by Elbert Hubbard

#91. I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles. #Quote by Samuel Alito

#92. The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. #Quote by Slobodan Milosevic

#93. I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about. #Quote by Lisa Kleypas

#94. For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job. #Quote by Brian Baumgartner

#95. My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form. #Quote by Lady Gaga

#96. Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up ... must have started some place." #workhard #Quote by Jayce O'Neal

#97. Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#98. She didn't know why arguing this point had become so important to her. If he wanted to live out the remainder of his life bitter and alone, she supposed he had that right. But his smugness made her so prickly all over. And he wasn't merely insulting love and romance. He was insulting her friends and acquaintances. Her own hard work.

The innermost yearnings of her heart.

This wasn't an academic argument. It was personal. If she didn't defend the idea of lasting happiness, how could she hold out any hope for her own? #Quote by Tessa Dare

#99. They say hard work pays off
Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job #Quote by Capital STEEZ

#100. There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. #Quote by Pearl Bailey

#101. your family, not family

they always seem to return

when all the hard work is finished

they add nothing to the journey

but bumps and bruises

and yet they wait for you

at the finish line with their hands open

expecting to be greeted with kindness even when
they've spent most of their energy being unkind
toward you. taking credit for what you've done alone. taking credit for your joy when all they've ever done

was hurt you #Quote by R.H. Sin

#102. Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence. #Quote by Cesar Chavez

#103. Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which prosperity wasn't taken away. For most people, for most of history, it's not true that religion, work and love have led to successful, happy lives. Instability, fear, disease, and war are so much more common that our lives are tremendous exceptions. Isn't that miraculous? #Quote by Mark Wallace

#104. There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. #Quote by Colin Powell

#105. We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations. #Quote by James Randi

#106. This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it. #Quote by Gwenda Bond

#107. It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater. #Quote by Cathy Rigby

#108. Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men #Quote by Amen Muffler

#109. I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard. #Quote by Imogen Heap

#110. Give God a break: work for what you are praying for. #Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#111. I believe our Presidents work hard and it's the loneliest job in the world. #Quote by Condoleezza Rice

#112. …based on second hand knowledge and first-hand experience, a successful online marketing cocktail looks like this: Equal parts hard work, talent and persistence, shaken for a long, long, long, long time, and some luck skewered onto a toothpick and thrown in for good measure. #Quote by Kristin Weber

#113. And what is it about you and romance novels? Is it the happily ever after? Is it the man who's too good to be true? Because I assure you, we all have our flaws, even the fictional ones. But the happily ever after depends on what you put into it. The hard work, the listening instead of talking, the laughing instead of crying, the sticking it out instead of running away, the knowing that sometimes silence is best but having her wrapped in your arms can still solve a lot of problems. So, you can have you romance novels while I have my King and Follett and Patterson because I don't want to read about having that kind of love someday. I'd rather be over here trying to take a chance at it in real life. #Quote by K. Bromberg

#114. The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them. #Quote by Michelle Obama

#115. Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. #Quote by Virat Kohli

#116. But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat. #Quote by Bear Grylls

#117. No amount of insult can change the height or grandeur of the mountain, nor the length of time required to climb it. #Quote by Alpha Four

#118. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study. #Quote by Grant Achatz

#119. The easiest way to success is through bed. You can only dream about it. #Quote by Ljupka Cvetanova

#120. I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. #Quote by Greg Akcelrod

#121. I don't mind failing because that means I'm trying. But giving up, now that's something that I'm just not willing to do. I will continue to try and try again. I will keep my peace, stay focused, and know that my time will come. My positive attitude will not depart me. I will hold it close and keep on striving, knowing that what's meant for me, will be. Nothing and nobody can stop it! My dedication and hard work won't fail me, but most importantly, I won't fail myself. I'm a winner and I'm a fighter! I don't allow challenges to stop me. #Quote by Stephanie Lahart

#122. Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs. #Quote by Joyce Meyer

#123. If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck #Quote by Nolan Bushnell

#124. Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.' #Quote by Conan O'Brien

#125. There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence. #Quote by Colin Powell

#126. To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. #Quote by William Boyd

#127. I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. #Quote by Charles Evans Hughes

#128. Being an entrepreneur does require a lot of sacrifice of your personal time and personal hobbies and things that you enjoy. At least for the period of high growth that you experience at the beginning of a company's life cycle, you have to be ready to make a lot of time sacrifices and personal sacrifice. #Quote by Anousheh Ansari

#129. Other people's children went off to college, which for years Ronald had interpreted as a positive thing. Lately, though, he wasn't so sure. The children who went off to college hardly ever came back. It was as though the hard work of getting that college degree bent them out of shape, focused them too much on their own personal achievement. Once you got that degree, it was all about getting ahead in that monetized struggle, and they forgot the community that raised them. Ooh, live in the Lower Nine; not me. Ooh, do a day's work with your hands; I won't touch that. The neighborhood gained something when one of its children went off to become a doctor or an engineer, but it lost something, too. #Quote by Dan Baum

#130. Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done. #Quote by Alief Moulana

#131. Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. #Quote by Adrienne Rich

#132. Be patient" does not mean relax and stop working. Your time is coming but in the meantime, keep building! #Quote by Liz Faublas

#133. We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#134. Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it ... I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music. #Quote by William J. Clinton

#135. Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work ... You had better enjoy it. #Quote by Richard Branson

#136. If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. #Quote by Alcee Hastings

#137. You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then-whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. #Quote by James Michael

#138. Grownups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grownups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it. #Quote by Gunter Grass

#139. Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience
the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success. #Quote by Arianna Huffington

#140. A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth. #Quote by Criss Jami

#141. You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work. #Quote by Robert Kiyosaki

#142. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#143. The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time doesn't matter. If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward. #Quote by Benjamin Carson

#144. Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations. #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

#145. I didn't become a comedian to work this hard. #Quote by Chelsea Handler

#146. We must bring back dignity to hard work. #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#147. Q. Why don't they work harder?
A. They just don't like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like to keep it up. The British find it boring. #Quote by George Mikes

#148. I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work. #Quote by William Shatner

#149. There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks. #Quote by Mindy Kaling

#150. I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control. #Quote by Tim Tebow

#151. If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins. #Quote by Ava Helen Pauling

#152. When things don't go according to plan, plan according to how things go. #Quote by Kayambila Mpulamasaka

#153. I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration. #Quote by Ken Salazar

#154. Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit. #Quote by Anthony Liccione

#155. So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work. #Quote by Marie Windsor

#156. Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream. #Quote by John Gokongwei

#157. Jean had always found her sister hard work. Even before she was born-again. To be honest, it was slightly better after she was born-again. Because then there was a reason for Eileen being hard work. You knew you'd never get on because she was going to heaven and you weren't, so you could give up trying.
But, God, the woman could make you feel greedy and self-centered just by the way she wore a shapeless faun cardigan. #Quote by Mark Haddon

#158. The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. #Quote by David McCullough

#159. As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick. #Quote by Chael Sonnen

#160. You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort. #Quote by Osho

#161. The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading. #Quote by Alice Rivlin

#162. Dream hard. Work harder. Shine. #Quote by Caragh M. O'Brien

#163. We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more. #Quote by Scott Lynch

#164. I work hard and fight easy. #Quote by Conor McGregor

#165. Do the job you love, love the job you do. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#166. a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time. #Quote by Robert Zimmermann

#167. Hard work is even more pleasing in the rich, whereas laziness is even more disgusting in the poor. #Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#168. I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard. #Quote by Jay-Z

#169. The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. #Quote by Dennis Lehane

#170. Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter. #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

#171. If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) #Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

#172. She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work. #Quote by Michael Chabon

#173. Yeah, it's hard, but it's the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you can do it and it feels great, because it was so hard. So we'll continue maybe even over the next couple of years to perform that and to expand our collaborative repertoire. #Quote by Will Oldham

#174. People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations. #Quote by Abdul Sattar Edhi

#175. The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God. #Quote by Meister Eckhart

#176. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#177. For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. #Quote by Albert M. Greenfield

#178. No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off. #Quote by Logan Henderson

#179. Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it. #Quote by Sanna Lenken

#180. Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself. #Quote by Merlin Olsen

#181. Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity. #Quote by Jennifer Pharr Davis

#182. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet. #Quote by Yaya Toure

#183. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed. #Quote by Yanni

#184. The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything. #Quote by Vince Lombardi Jr.

#185. If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real. #Quote by Qiu Xiaolong

#186. It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. #Quote by Boris Johnson

#187. Critical thinking helps us to more clearly understand situations, patients, colleagues, and our agendas, negative emotions, attitudes, motivations, talents, and growing edges. This not only helps us to have a greater grasp of reality but also stops the drain of psychological energy that is necessary to be defensive or to protect our image. Because critical thinking is not natural, although we may think it is for us, it takes discipline, a willingness to face the unpleasant, and a stamina that allows one not to become unduly frustrated when we do not achieve results as quickly as we prefer with respect to our insights and growth. #Quote by Robert J. Wicks

#188. First, of course, the work ethic... This is one of those magician's tricks in which all our attention is focused on one hand while the other hand does the manipulating. Implicit in the work ethic are the ideas (1) that because one must work to acquire wealth, work equals wealth, and (2) that that is the whole equation. With these go the corollaries that anyone who has wealth must have earned it by hard work and is, therefore, beyond criticism; that anyone who doesn't have it deserves to suffer-- thus penalizing any who do not work for money; and (since you have a right to all you earn) that the only real work is for one's self; and finally, that any limit set to the amount of wealth an individual may acquire is a satanic device to deprive men of their free agency-- thus making mockery of the Council of Heaven... In Zion you labor, to be sure, but not for money, and not for yourself, which is the exact opposite of our present version of the work ethic. #Quote by Nibley, Hugh

#189. The evil heart is patient, cross her fingers, palms together, hope, pray and act with faith, that all your hard work may come to nothing #Quote by Dew Platt

#190. The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work. #Quote by Pete Sessions

#191. Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me. #Quote by Billy Campbell

#192. No nation becomes great without first eradicating laziness from the lives of its citizens. A nation could be blessed with all the natural resources and potentials but if that nation does not destroy laziness and revive hard work in its citizens, that nation will be as underdeveloped and economically recessed as if it has no resources and potentials whatsoever. #Quote by Clement Ogedegbe

#193. Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic. #Quote by Gary Snyder

#194. I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop themselves. Sometimes I've wondered what I could have done with their talent. On the other hand, the tag that I was too small and slow made me work hard. #Quote by Steve Largent

#195. When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups. #Quote by Barack Obama

#196. I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done. #Quote by Gabrielle Reece

#197. I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do. #Quote by Clint Black

#198. You can't keep your feet on the ground, hoping to enjoy the fruits of your labour. The fruits are on the top; keep climbing till you pluck them with your hands! #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

#199. Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. #Quote by Sue Bender

#200. If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it. #Quote by Ted Ligety

#201. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. #Quote by Friedrich Schiller

#202. Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film. #Quote by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#203. I had a stutter 'till ... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood. #Quote by Nicholas Brendon

#204. In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing. #Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

#205. Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that's the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go. #Quote by Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#206. When Lillian left work in the early evening the streets were slick and shiny with rain and the lamps flared yellow giving her the melancholy feeling that always came with the rain and the dark. She'd just struggled to push up her umbrella when the farmer from Saskatchewan came out of the shadows and tipped his hat again, very politely, and said could he escort her home? She put her small hand on his broad arm and held the umbrella over both their heads (he was very tall) and he walked her all the way back to her lodging-house where the landlady, Mrs Raicevic, looked after Edmund after school. By then, Lillian had learned the farmer's name and she said, 'Edmund, this is Mr Donner,' and Pete Donner squatted right down and said, 'Hello there, Edmund, you can call me Pete.' Although he never did, preferring to call him 'Pop' almost from the day his mother married him. #Quote by Kate Atkinson

#207. Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography. #Quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto

#208. A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. #Quote by Edvard Munch

#209. I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can. I'll miss that. #Quote by Robert Patrick

#210. Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. #Quote by Raymond Chandler

#211. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. #Quote by Yves Tanguy

#212. In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer. #Quote by Roger Scruton

#213. One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people ... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. #Quote by Andrew Schneider

#214. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must. #Quote by Jimmy Carter

#215. In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. #Quote by Peter McWilliams

#216. People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working. #Quote by Elon Musk

#217. Sometimes its hard to keep going when everything looks hopeless but its not. If you helped someone, anyone, in your life, your life is not hopeless therefore you are not hopeless #Quote by Brianna Breezy Taylor

#218. I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. #Quote by Anton Chekhov

#219. My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it. #Quote by Jasper Johns

#220. The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed."
"That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. #Quote by Betty Smith

#221. Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#222. Well, the vast majority of people don't steal to get ahead. A lot of people work their way up from nothing without stealing."

"I don't think a lot of people work their way up from nothing, ever. People like you want to believe it happens all the time. But it really doesn't. #Quote by J. Ryan Stradal

#223. I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind. #Quote by James C. Scott

#224. Life is the one riddle that is denotative, referential. Although every person shares a common ultimate destiny, each person must work out their own life, script their own personal salvation, and wrestle with the fear and trembling that is inherent when we consider our mortality. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#225. Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way ... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust. #Quote by Kelly Rowan

#226. It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. #Quote by Ram Dass

#227. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. #Quote by Don Roff

#228. But whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past: it may continue to tug on you without your being aware of it. And lying about it can - for all but the most hardened sociopath - carve a lonely gap between your disguise and who you really are. The practiced liar also projects her own manipulative, double-dealing façade onto everyone she meets, which makes moving through the world a wary, anxious enterprise. It's hard enough to see what's going on without forcing yourself to look through the wool you've pulled over your own eyes…For the more haunted among us, only looking back at the past can permit it finally to become past. #Quote by Mary Karr

#229. I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. #Quote by Reese Witherspoon

#230. There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky. #Quote by John C. Reilly

#231. Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology. #Quote by Marco Brambilla

#232. Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on - but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal. #Quote by Ed Catmull

#233. The student, balancing between the deep knowledge of the specialist and the broad curiosity of the generalist, must develop, largely on their own, their capacity to be conscious of past and emerging idioms, to see their own work in the context of developing styles, and – most difficult of all – to identify how their own personal style can co-exist with the restrictions of utility and the conventions of genre. #Quote by Gerry Leonidas

#234. If someone reuses your video snippet, and that person's work incorporating yours is reused by yet a third party, you still get a micropayment from that third party. #Quote by Jaron Lanier

#235. I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular. #Quote by Signe Baumane

#236. It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels. #Quote by Louise L. Hay

#237. Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it. #Quote by Scot McKnight

#238. I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work. #Quote by Charles William Eliot

#239. Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word "wealth." Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone's reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone's life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169). #Quote by Franco Bifo Berardi

#240. Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject is not the world about them but the one within them. From story to story or poem to poem, they repeat themselves because all they have to work with are themselves and their dreams, which are strange dreams and often bad dreams. As anyone knows, nothing is more troublesome to communicate than yourself and your dreams, the feelings and visions that have molded you into what you are. #Quote by Thomas Ligotti