Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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DEYTH BANGER Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
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WALTER MURCH If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’...
T. HARV EKER Do the best you can at any job you have and be willing to work your way up,
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ED SCHILLING I've got to forget about (Wednesday), work hard and do my job.
EDWIN ENCARNACION Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.
WILLIAM FEATHER All you can do is to do your best.
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JEFF SCHWARTZ The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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JOHN CARMACK You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the onl...
JERRY GARCIA Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world a...
FELICIA DAY The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
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MILES DAVIS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm rea...
HARRY REID Be so good at what You do . . .
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UFUOMA APOKI Before you were trying to pull out every ounce of talent out of kids. And now you've got kids with n...
ERIC KIESAU I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if i...
ROBERT DE NIRO Czyz is the best defensive player we've got and he made it hard for (Beaty) to get the basketball. M...
ANDRE PAYNE Their offensive line is a very good, a very hard-working group [that works well] together. Their zon...
TOM COUGHLIN It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What reall...
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ALEXANDRA DADDARIO You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE The good thing is they come out every day, work hard and do what's asked. And we're pretty demanding...
LANDY FAEDO After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. B...
JUELZ SANTANA If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, th...
DONNA LYNN HOPE It's hard to do, but it's not as hard if it's not your own.
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KIMMIE MEISSNER You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there ...
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DOUGLAS WILDER I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su...
GENE WILDER During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many ...
DOUGLAS WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different fro...
THORNTON WILDER Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
THORNTON WILDER Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ...
THORNTON WILDER I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
THORNTON WILDER The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to s...
THORNTON WILDER Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif...
CHERRYN WILDER It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (...
BILLY WILDER I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
DEONTAY WILDER I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go righ...
DEONTAY WILDER My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas...
DEONTAY WILDER He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly dis...
DOUGLAS WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper
BILLY WILDER Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black ...
DOUGLAS WILDER She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hand...
JASINDA WILDER Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
THORNTON WILDER When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe...
DENNIS WILDER My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a...
GENE WILDER The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER