Arthur Sullivan Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The only constant I can find is hard work.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

There is absolutely nothing that beats 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.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Thinke of ease, but worke on.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

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

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

Everything yields to diligence.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

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

I just keep working.