Pastoral Resources

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.