Alan Furst Quotes

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

I just have to keep working hard.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

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

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

We've never minded working hard.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

Everyone wants to be in the first team, but you have to accept the situation and keep working hard.

When things go bad, the best thing to do is keep working and keep coaching.

I just believe in working hard, and whatever comes my way, I try and give it my best.

All we can do is to work hard.

Nobody is going to tell me that I can't do three games in a week. No one is going to tell me that I can't do it well. I'm going to work really hard at it. I get bored if I don't have 10,000 things on my plate.

You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.