Dee Rees Quotes

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

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

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

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I always knew I had to work hard.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

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

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.