Naomi Alderman Quotes

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

Everything yields to diligence.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

I'm kind of a grinder.

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

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

Persistent work triumphs.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Keep starting until you finish.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried