Jim Butcher Quotes

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I was a hard worker.

I know only one way: work hard.

You've got to be the hardest-working guy.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

Accustom yourself to tireless activity.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Work hard or don't work at all.

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.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

People know I work hard.

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.

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Do the day's work.