John Gruber Quotes

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.

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

I have to keep playing and growing and giving my best.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

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

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.