Robert Doisneau Quotes

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

I might go 0 for 4 in a game, but I still had a chance to help the team by making plays in the field.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

You put a lot of work into something, a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices, and the time you put in, you want the same result from it.

You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

You're never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it's worth it; you just have to be realistic.

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

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.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

Winning is not easy. There's an investment that has to be made night in and night out.

I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the songs I've made, having fans and working with the people I work with aren't chance. I know that dedication and work have gotten me to where I am and will get me to where I wanna go.

I wanted to put in the time and the work, because eventually it pays off in a good way.

You can win the lottery but you need to buy the ticket first. And in life, you can get lucky but you need to work hard and be ready first.

I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I've had.