It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
~ Isadora Duncan
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.
~ Rebecca Mackinnon
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
~ Jesse James Garrett
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?
~ Priyanka Chopra
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
~ Julia Gillard
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
~ Alphonso Jackson
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.
~ Billy Campbell
I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.
~ Nargis Fakhri
A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
~ Joan Cusack
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.
~ Ron Carlson
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
~ Anna Pavlova
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
~ William Feather
We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
~ Thomas J. Watson
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Change is such hard work.
~ Billy Crystal
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
~ Jim Jeffords
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
~ Neil Degrasse Tyson
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
~ Anthony Lewis
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
~ Katee Sackhoff
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
~ James Nesbitt
