Alex Sharp Quotes

Easy doesn't do it.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I just want to do something challenging.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

They never said winning was easy.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

If it were easy, it would have no value.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.