“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”

“Working really hard is what successful people do...”

“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

“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.”

“I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.”