Sidney Altman Quotes

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one's looking, and just knowing that it's a process. Everything will come at the right time.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

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

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

Rome was not built in one day.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.