Koichi Tanaka Quotes

The only constant I can find is hard work.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

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

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Everything yields to diligence.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

Persistence pays off.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Talent is long patience.

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.