Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.
It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.
At the end of the day, there's so much work that has to be done to impact positive change in any direction you look.
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.
Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.
Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.
What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.
Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you don't really know how to acquire certain things.
