Intense Effort Quotes

I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I've been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Focus. It's powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

15 Storeys High' is the hardest thing I've worked on. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn't stand a chance!

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

I've never been the guy who tried to line up three or four projects down the road. I like to find one piece that speaks to me and then pour my heart and soul into it. Then I come home, recoup, and relax.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.

It's really intense to write and make a movie and produce it and have it come out in the world. It's a very vulnerable thing.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.