Robert Sapolsky Quotes

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

I put all my energy and thoughtful commitment to everything that I do. There is no other way!

When I train, I train well.

I've always worked hard and stayed focused.

My dad told me, 'If you're going to go out there and play baseball, or you're going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.' He didn't just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

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

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

The real work is in the practice.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

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.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.