I’m the 27th pick – not too many people thought I was gonna play the way I am. It’s just a testament to having confidence and work ethic and believing in yourself and keeping the marathon going.
You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you’re out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.
I think I have a really good work ethic.
I’m absolutely looking at my career differently, but it’s still really important to some sense of connection to where I came from, which is this DIY, queer work ethic and sensibility.
I have a strong work ethic.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
How can you question Chris Jericho’s work ethic?
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’
I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.
I didn’t come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.
I’m kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we’re just nice people and have a great work ethic.
People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.
I pride myself on what I do every night. I pride myself on my work ethic and how I carry myself. I want to be mature in my approach but focused and disciplined.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
LeBron James, I just love watching him play. I love his work ethic and all the things he stands for.
Experience wise you’ve got to give it to the Bella Twins but in terms of just overall effort, athleticism, and just work ethic, the Funkadactyles are there with them.
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He’s not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he’s also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It’s in our DNA, the American work ethic.
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
I don’t want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic.
I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That’s where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.
In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I’m also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.
I’ve been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
In Europe they are all kind of hard. They yell a lot, but they are trying to be honest and try to teach you how to get a work ethic and how to play the right way.
I think it’s a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven’t had the time to learn their craft. It doesn’t matter if it’s acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic… fame is a terrible thing to have.
I am not the best high-flyer or technical wrestler. What I do have is a work ethic that can’t be beat.
In the neighborhood where my studio is, in South Central Los Angeles, there are a lot of immigrant-owned businesses. I’m constantly amazed at the level of work they do. It’s above anything. For me, I think I pattern myself on that work ethic.
Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she’s in her mid- to late 70s.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
When you’re home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don’t get anything done.
I love studying different religions. For me, learning and drawing from the different religious traditions is essential to being a good public servant. And the connections between our various religious traditions become our public ethic; they tie us together.
A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
We need to promote an ethic of work. And there’s no way one guy or one company is going to be able to do it. It has to be a big hot mess – public, private, government, NGOs and smart alecks on the TV talking about it.
I have a good work ethic.
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough ‘fun’.
There’s something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.
I guess something people wouldn’t expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
My work ethic has never been a question.
There’s a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.
Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there’s no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.
Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church’s social teaching on solidarity.
A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, ‘Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.’ But you’ve got to work. There’s got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.
I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.
We didn’t have a lot when I was growing up, and it’s the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.
I have a strong work ethic, yet I’m incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.
My dad was an insane workaholic, and watching his work ethic gave me a lot of motivation.
I think the work ethic will take me wherever I want to go in life. It’s my mindset that determines how, when, and if I’ll get there.
What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake’s got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
We’re like on a rollercoaster and I don’t like that because a sign of a good team is consistency, and consistency is a work ethic and it’s about producing that standard, and if you can produce that standard week in, week out, whether you win or lose, that’s a different thing.
If you have a writing partner that you don’t share a work ethic with, it’s doomed.
I’ve been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my work home but the next day I want to go prepared. So okay let’s have a few moments of camaraderie whatever… okay great! I go work on the script.
In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley’s mother in ‘Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.’ I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.
It’s physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don’t sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me – couple days a month, two hours a day.
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He’s fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen intellect and work ethic.
