Alan Shepard Quotes

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

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

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

Do the day's work.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

You're only going to get better when you work hard and you focus on what you're doing.

At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.

Focus is the secret to success. Focus and enjoying whatever it is you're doing.

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.

I always found when I was most focused, that's when I did the best financially.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.