Ellen Glasgow Quotes

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

When you do good work, people will notice you.

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full time job. So I think that it's a combination of being lucky, but also really studying, working hard and pushing myself to do everything I could.

My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering".

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.