Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.
Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
At the end of the day, there's so much work that has to be done to impact positive change in any direction you look.
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.
Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.
Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you don't really know how to acquire certain things.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
