Norman Mailer Quotes

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

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

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

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.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

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

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

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.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

He that staies does the businesse.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.