Extra Work Quotes:

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Extra Work, Wanted, Extras

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

- Kent McCord

topic: Baby, Cynthia, Engagement, Baby Girl, Extra Work

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

- Michelle Rodriguez

topic: Depressing, Writing, People, Extra Work

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

- Jimmy Johnson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Basketball, Softball Team, Inspirational Hard Work

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

source: "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Self Determination, Inspirational Achievement

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

- Mike Rounds

source: Michael Rounds' State of the State Address at the South Dakota State Capitol, legis.sd.gov. January 11, 2005.

topic: Hard Work, Simple, Effort, Effort And Hard Work, Extra Effort

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

- David Bly

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Trying, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

- Fred Rogers

source: Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.129, Penguin

topic: Proud, Helpful, Said, Extra Work, Proud Of Yourself

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

- Roger Staubach

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Traffic Jam, Customer Experience

Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

- Elif Batuman

source: Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books

topic: Love Is, Littles, Way, Extra Work

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.

- Pawel Szajda

topic: New York, Trying, Firsts, Extra Work

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.

- Dave Bristol

topic: Two, Leaving, Needs, Extra Work

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

- Tamora Pierce

source: Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.81, Random House Books for Young Readers

topic: Character, Lunch, Taught, Stumps, Extra Work

I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Fun, Thinking, Littles, Irritants, Footnotes

I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.

- Michelle Rodriguez

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Kids, School, Two, Extra Work

If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'

- Jurgen Klinsmann

source: "Jürgen Klinsmann's USA project is not designed to be a quick fix" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

topic: Fun, Team, Player, Team Player, Extra Work