Peter S. Beagle Quotes

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

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

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

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.

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.

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.

Talent is long patience.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

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

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

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.

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

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

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.

I just keep working.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.