Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Creating anything is hard.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

Genius is patience.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.