Pastoral Resources

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.