Work Ethic Quotes - Page 7

• The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Strong, Skills, Names

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

  Amy Adams

  Fashion, Shoes, Likes

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• I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

  Joshua Mohr

  Addiction, Credit, Ethics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.

  Rachel Caine

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.

  Kevin Costner

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

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• My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

  Bill Burr

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

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• It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

  Ezra Levant

  Opposites, People, Ontario

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• My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• I think being born in Belarus, coming here with nothing, my parents working every minute - that instilled a huge competitive advantage, a chip on my shoulder, a work ethic. Immigrants win a lot and they win a lot because of a couple core things.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Couple, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

  Ted Alexandro

  Trying, Ethics, Determined

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Dream, Ethics

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• I learned so many things from Louis C.K., but the most impactful thing was witnessing his work ethic. He works harder than anyone I've ever been around in comedy. And he takes risks and doesn't dwell on what might be perceived as failures.

  Ted Alexandro

  Hard Work, Risk, Might

  Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

  Thomas Middleditch

  Art, Chicago, Ethics

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• The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.

  Anthony Mackie

  Dad, Home, School

  Source: aalbc.com

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• A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

  Raekwon

  People, Hot, Ethics

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you're young, you start looking at what you want to do - not just who you want to be, but what you want to do. And I think the tenacity to say, "I'm going to perfect that," is the beginning of a work ethic. It's the beginning of a talent.

  Goldie Hawn

  Thinking, Perfect, Ethics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes it did really. It was very exciting to find that my energy could be directed into something more useful and positive. I was starting to get panicked. I was thinking 'what am I going to do with my life?' I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Then I became crazily obsessed with acting. I suddenly had a work ethic and then everything changed completely for the better because I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

  John Leguizamo

  Thinking, Acting, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it's just about balancing family, I think, and work - and giving everything 100%. And that's what he taught me.

  Tori Spelling

  Strong, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

  Dick Vitale

  Dream, Nice, Pride

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• My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Dad, School

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• A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very intense work ethic, right from the beginning. There was a do-or-die attitude toward the work. It wasn't seen as a little "club." It was like, "This is your life." We would spend hours and hours rehearsing and endlessly rewriting. We took it very seriously right off the bat. And we were also extremely critical of each other, which was another thing that was unique. A lot of comedy ensembles have a hard time being critical of each other, because they don't want to hurt each other's feelings.

  Michael Showalter

  Hurt, Attitude, Hard Times

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.

  Jakob Dylan

  Mean, Serious, Ethics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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