“Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.” PeopleKnowsYearsHardThreeNamesViewsAttitudeComedyFourMagicHard WorkPoint Of ViewStealingInventionFour Years Author:David Copperfield
“This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that - and I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president [Donald Trump], it just tells me this is a great country. My grandfather was right.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingCountryHardDreamHandsCareKidsPresidentStudyAirHard WorkTrumpGiving UpStandingMy FamilyYour DreamsImmigrantsPlatformsGrandfatherNever Giving UpMy GrandfatherGreat CountryGrandsonNever Give Up On Your DreamsSmall LifeHands In The Air Author:Mike Pence
“Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.” PeopleHardHard WorkPatientSurroundGood PeopleGroundedBe PatientSurround YourselfSurround Yourself With Good People Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson
“People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.” PeopleHardPositionHard Work Author:Martin Schulz
“I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.” PeopleKnowsWayChildrenI CanTwoHardProblemWaitingClearHard WorkCoupleConscienceTrainSlaveStuckIncomeSupposed To BeVainNeverthelessTrafficDecreaseClear ConscienceDaycareStuck In Traffic Author:Martin Schulz
“People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.” PeopleImportantHardHouseWhiteHard WorkInvolvedBiggerIncomeAdministrationWhite HousePsychics Author:Mark Shields
“My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayMindHardImaginationQualityHard WorkTenEthicsSittingSentencesHeyPacksWork EthicNeuroticObsessiveSitting AroundWild Imagination Author:George Saunders
“Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.” PeopleThinkingLittlesArtTodayFormComedyHard WorkHigherStandardsHarderCriticalAnalysisBrutalPopularityWork HarderJudgmentalStand Up ComedyHigher StandardsCritical Analysis Author:Joe Rogan
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsMayHardHelpingBigsWould BeFallHouseNationsBreakHard WorkEqualOrdinaryMachinesBottomRussiaBlockCommunistSwingsBackwardsEasternLaddersTippingBulgaria Author:Robin Leach
“I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHeartStillsEndsHardGovernmentAmericaPoliticalSpiritWealthWonderTakenHard WorkMajorityEntrepreneurCurrentsAdministrationWorthwhileRegulationSchemesDistributionTaxationGovernment Regulation Author:Robin Leach
“Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.” PeopleStillsAmericaHard WorkAmountHarderWorkersPaceWagesInflationWork Harder Author:Nina Turner
“What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.” PeopleLongHardHelpingBigsHappensKidsNationsHoursChanceQualityEconomyHard WorkVacationNow And ThenWagesEnd TimesSpend TimeQuality Of LifeLong HoursWorking Long Hours Author:Nina Turner
“Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business.” PeopleGivingLooksHardDoneNextOpinionCasesWorryAdviceJudgingHard WorkGoes OnDecidedProductiveGive It Your All Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.” PeopleGivingHardTalentHard WorkGiving UpQuittingNever Giving UpNever Quit Author:Carli Lloyd
“Even though we all might have differences, there's commonality in the sense [that] people are hard-working, people want to raise a family, people want to put a roof over their head, people want to put food on their table, people want good things for their children.” PeopleWantChildrenHardMightDifferencesHard WorkRaisesTablesGood ThingsRoofCommonality Author:Marty Walsh
“People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLooksHardEnoughWholeOrderPayHard WorkTaxesBenefitsLateAbsolutesBillionsGet UpWelfarePoundsFundGoing OutBureaucracyOutrageUp Early Author:George Osborne
“What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.” PeopleWantHardGovernmentSidesHard WorkAngry Author:George Osborne
“There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.” PeopleWantNeedsWellsCountryHardProblemHard WorkMajorityBritainCracksMainstreamCoalitions Author:George Osborne
“We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.” PeopleWantMeanWarHardHard WorkGenocideNastyHostileFeuds Author:Albert Ellis
“Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.” PeopleWantGivingWellsHardHelpingGovernmentWould BeGuySocialHard WorkHorrorProgramVoteDemocraticWorkersDrivingDishesWashingSocial WorkerGovernment ProgramsWashing DishesMinivans Author:Mark Helprin
“I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.” PeopleHomeSinSecretAttentionHard WorkForgivingPay AttentionForgive Me Author:Tom Harkin
“I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president, it just tells me this is a great country.” PeopleGivingCountryDreamCareKidsPresidentStudyHard WorkGiving UpMy FamilyNever Giving UpGreat CountrySmall Life Author:Mike Pence
“We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.” PeopleLongTogetherBlackPresidentHard WorkWorking TogetherBlack People Author:Leah Chase
“I'm inspired by people who are really deliberate and careful with their lives, and people who are kind. And of course I'm inspired by people who work hard and don't complain about it. I myself work hard but sometimes, I admit, I do complain.” PeopleKindSometimesHard WorkInspiredCarefulComplaining Author:Lauren Grodstein
“I think relationships are more valuable than anything - in not just music, but any kind of business - if you can be a good, honest person who keeps your word and works hard, and by practising and getting good, you develop your skills, then you have a lot of opportunity to succeed, because you'll have all these people out there to support you. If you have those relationships, then doors open for you, and that's really valuable.” PeopleThinkingKindOpportunitySupportHonestHard WorkSucceedValuable Author:Muneshine
“I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there are millions of undocumented workers that work hard, sweat soil every day to put the food we eat on our table. That's not a myth, that's a reality. Why don't we let them come with visas to this country so that then we don't have people using that border.” PeopleCountryRealityHard WorkMythVisa Author:Luis Gutierrez
“Longevity is a huge factor in becoming separate from the mass of people that are just starting, or don't have any friends in the same realm, or don't really have the foundation. So it's good and bad, it's easy and it's hard. It's really what you make of it. Because if it's truly something that you really enjoy and obsess over, then waiting 10 years or waiting 30 years shouldn't be that big of a deal for you. As you get older and as you work harder, you see further down the road.” PeopleEasyWaitingEnjoyHard WorkLongevityGood And BadWork Harder Author:Mr. Carmack
“It's such hard work doing a musical. I did my first musical last year, performing in The Producers, and it was a big part to suddenly be doing Leo Bloom in that. It's such hard work. It's a proper slog. It became like clocking in. And it's a big factory - you go in, everyone's got their little plot, people are taking in and out of it if they have days off or holidays, and it's just a jigsaw that all works. It always amazes me that this product would happen every night and it was just all these elements coming together in a big machine.” PeopleTogetherNightHard WorkMusicalProducersPerformingHolidayJigsaw Author:Reece Shearsmith
“You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking.” PeopleChanceTalentHard WorkLuckyLuckPerseveranceReally Great Author:Chris Gethard
“Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.” PeopleBelieveChildrenActionWaterQualityHard WorkOur ChildrenSafetyClimate ChangeProgressiveFairnessSafety Net Author:Nancy MacLean
“I think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must Have.' Why must you have them? They're a 'must' for some people, but for some they're not. It's silly. Again, it's all a matter of knowing who you are. You'll never run out of ideas once you do. But it's hard work and some people don't want to put in the time or effort. So they don't. And that's their issue. I don't sit in judgment on how they look.” PeopleThinkingRunningEffortHard WorkTerribleJudgmentWho You AreSilly Author:Iris Apfel
“There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own decision and you have to learn to trust that, or learn that it's wrong. The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.” PeopleBelieveDecisionPossibilityHard WorkTruth IsSincereBe PreparedHard Truths Author:Mary Gaitskill
“There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.” PeopleImportantChallengesFocusHard WorkProve Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.” PeopleGivingTryingOpportunityWaitingWorryHard WorkWindowThings HappenNot InterestedWork Harder Author:Noel Clarke
“I see that things are getting made a lot faster for less money and there are a lot less opportunity, I think, for actors. There's not a lot of work in the U.K. I mean, that's why everyone's moving to America because that's where the work seems to be. But it definitely feels like a lot more of a slog to get a gig these days. I suppose that's a lot to do with our current climate and financial messes. I certainly see that people seem to have to work harder with a lot less time.” PeopleThinkingMeanMovingOpportunityHard WorkFinancialMessWork Harder Author:Billie Piper
“I think that everybody has hard work side, no matter what your job is, you have bad days, you have people you don't get along with. The thing about modeling is every single day you're working with a completely new team so every single day is your first day of work or your first day of school. And you can't really have an off day because that will be the only experience they have with you.” PeopleThinkingSchoolTeamHard WorkModelingBad Day Author:Kate Upton
“I've always been fascinated by people's capacity to care. Everyone has a different capacity for it. Some people can take on more and deal with more. Today, with the economy, I have such respect for the hard work that has to be done. But we're on this planet and we have a responsibility to ourselves to care.” PeopleDifferentDoneCareTodayResponsibilityEconomyHard Work Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move the play back. I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naïve about the theater, a total innocent. He says to me, have you ever been to a rehearsal room? Do you realize you are opening at the Public in New York? You do understand that the audience will be New York theater people?” PeopleKindTogetherMovingRealizingAudienceHard WorkInnocent Author:Nathan Englander
“I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in power in Mississippi still seem to be invested in these very American myths."The individual is alone." "We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps." "We create success for ourselves, and if we work hard enough then we will succeed and have success beyond our wildest dreams." I think that we need to do away with that kind of thinking and be more aware of history and how the history of this place bears in the present and how it affects people.” PeopleThinkingKindReasonEnoughDreamIndividualHard WorkSucceedMythProgressive Author:Jesmyn Ward
“Be sure of what you want work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.” PeopleHard WorkNegativeRejectionPick Yourself Up Author:Toks Olagundoye
“Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. You can get ahead. Doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. Our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and then make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the American dream. That's what we got to fight for. That has to be the north star that guides everything we do.” PeopleDreamKidsFightingOpportunityResponsibilityHard WorkMiddle ClassAmerican Dream Author:Barack Obama
“If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.” PeopleBelieveIndividualBlackPoorHard WorkBeing TrueGet BetterLazyLazinessGood WorkPoor People Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.” PeopleHard WorkSucceed Author:Cameron Diaz
“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.” PeopleWritingBookHardSchoolSuccessMoneyBusinessTeachProductsHard WorkSelf ImprovementInvestingBusiness Success Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.” PeopleSufferingHard WorkStressEndureComplicatedRecovery Author:Edward Hallowell
“I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired or when I've been thrown up on for the second time that I'm just a tired man trying to keep it together. I've had a lot of jobs over the years and people who make television - it's ridiculous how much they're lauded and paid. It's irresponsible and stupid. But it is hard work. It's very difficult to balance having three young kids and working like that. So I owe my wife an enormous debt of gratitude. I feel guilty that the kids had to be grown in her body and she hasn't been able to work.” PeopleMenTryingKidsTogetherDifficultWifeStupidHard WorkBalanceGratitudeTiredFeministMy WifeRidiculousGuiltyProgressive Author:Rob Delaney
“I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.” PeopleArtDifferentFilmOpportunityChanceBreakWonderfulWeekHard WorkTheatreConsistencyGrindTime Spent Author:Reeve Carney
“Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.” PeopleThinkingSometimesDreamOpportunityGoalNicePossibilityHard WorkBeing Nice Author:Gigi Hadid
“To paraphrase the late management thinker and writer, Peter Drucker, thinking is hard work, which is why so few people (including actually senior managers) do it. Once there is some "conventional," seemingly-reasonable story, people just accept it and don't ask, "is this actually true? Is it consistent with the data?" And this extends to the highest reaches of organizational life.” PeopleThinkingAcceptingHard WorkManagementConsistentThinkerSeniorOrganizationalParaphrase Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.” PeopleMindHardPlayHomeDreamBigsTurnsCoursesHard WorkRedHollywoodDressesStrikesTalesClockFairyGrayFairy TaleMiceMidnightCarpetRed Carpet Author:Olga Kurylenko