Unseen Efforts Quotes

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Many people work behind a music project, but hardly get recognised.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

The hardest working person in showbusiness has never been or ever will be a 'famous person'.

It's a product of being an actor, you know? A lot of your work doesn't end up on camera and some of the best things aren't always in the final product. But yeah, a lot of my stuff got cut and it was painful, but I know it was for the better of the movie.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

To be honest, I'm worth more than 12-14 million. Just for the things I do on the court that don't show up on the stat sheet. You don't find guys like that.

There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.

The best servant does his work unseen.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

No one knows how hard one works.

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

It's the little things. That's kind of what I bring to the table in terms of doing things that might not show up in the box score. Diving for a loose ball, or switching out on a guard and getting that big stop, cutting someone's water off if they've made a couple shots.