I’ve never been a captain of a team. But people always listen just because of my work ethic.
Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I’d be able to dance… without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.
I actually really enjoy work ethic.
I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm’s best lessons.
Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.
As a leader, these attributes – confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense – are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.
I’m not a starstuck dude. I’ve been in this game too long for that, but I do respect and acknowledge real work and real work ethic.
I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you’re actually doing a play. It’s not quite 24/7, but it’s the work that counts.
I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, ‘You need to do this by this time, or you’re in trouble’.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say – at least for the moment – a thing of the past – from what I can tell.
I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.
I kept a chart each day so I had an idea of how many shots I took and how many I made. Looking back on it now, I can appreciate the work ethic I put forward.
America’s work ethic is non-stop; it’s not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.
The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee might have had some good times, but it was almost like a work ethic. We were out there to basically to get the fans to see the Ramones.
I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.
I don’t think it’s especially praiseworthy that even in those periods when things around us were kind of dire, we were working on the music. There isn’t an alternative; that kind of work ethic is all that there is.
My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.
I have a work ethic. If I say I’m going to do something, I do it.
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
God blessed me with great talent and good genetics. Plus, he blessed me with a good work ethic and a drive to want to be the best.
Black women’s feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community’s children.
Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.
If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that’s because they have a healthy work ethic.
John Cena’s work ethic is beyond reproach. It’s been phenomenal to see what he does and he’s made himself a brand.
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.
I’m talented, but my work ethic has pushed me over the top.
The biggest thing I’ve learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I’ve put ‘Work ethic equals results! DDP.’
I’m an actor. It’s what I do. It’s what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that’s what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that’s just what I do.
We’ve got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we’re worrying about. It’s unbelievable to me. And as long as I’m alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.
I suppose all of us – we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you’re not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you’re really busy. That’s the reason to sort of carry on.
I’ve always been a little kid compared to the guys I’ve competed against in terms of body development. I’ve always looked a lot younger, so naturally my body got a bit bigger and stronger. I combined that with a good work ethic, good mindset and focus.
Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly ‘radical’ ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
Both parents were hard-working and made me work for my pocket money by doing household chores. That taught me the value of money and gave me a strong work ethic.
I think it was everything about him: his work ethic, his desire to be the best football player that he can be. He just woke up and he was just Ray Lewis, so he did pretty much everything great. He was a great teammate.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn’t matter if you can’t play a note, it’s how you communicate.
I inherited my dad’s sense of humor and work ethic.
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.
The Laker brand and name itself is fantastic. When you have a guy like Kobe Bryant in that brand also, it takes it out of this world. I think the fact that everybody sees the work ethic this guy has makes them work harder.
My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I’m definitely thankful for my roots.
I have a great work ethic because I’ve watched my parents work super hard.
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ‘ethic.’
I hold very high expectations of myself and my work ethic.
A lot people have a strong work ethic because they want the lifestyle, or they want the money, but me, I have a hard work ethic because I love the game.
You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.
‘All My Children’ taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
I have trained on and off with Floyd and his father for many years now and I’ve learned a lot. His work ethic is second to none and it’s great being around him and the ‘Money Team.’
During therapy I have realised that my work ethic comes from my mum, Emma. She used to work two or three jobs at a time to keep food on the table in our council flat in Birmingham. She taught me to stay disciplined, to go to Sunday school, all those things.
I grew up – my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always – not always, but he wrote. He’s a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, ‘This is my work. I’m going to do this every day for these amount of hours.’ So I think that’s where I got, like, a work sort of ethic.
The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.
Have a good work ethic. You’ve got to practice, practice, practice. I’m not telling you what to practice – that’s up to you.
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it’s an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas – that is the romantic vision of the painter.
