A lot of people think they need the best training partners, the best gym. I started with Vans, Jack in the Box, and a dream, and now I’m here. You just need to have that work ethic, focus, and dedication.
Sometimes you’re not blessed with the materialistic stuff but you’re blessed with a work ethic.
The guy who shows up on time, who has a good work ethic, network executives and producers know that. It’s a very small industry we work in.
There was no way we’d ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
Even if I was running an idli shop for a living, I know that my idlis will taste good because that’s how highly I rate my work ethic.
My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
My parents had a great work ethic.
The qualities I look for in planners or creatives is very much the same thing. Beyond the givens of talent and work ethic, I really look for people who are inspired by the everyday, people who are not afraid of the obvious and are able to reinterpret it into a creative and interesting manner.
I didn’t have any sophistication. I didn’t really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she’s been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.
I look up to a strong woman; maybe that’s why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
I wouldn’t be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren’t for all the indie films I did. We weren’t pampered and were pretty much on our own.
I come from a family with a really strong work ethic – not just my parents, but my aunts, uncles and cousins. It rubbed off on me. I have a cousin in The Bronx who says I’m like the longshoreman of actors. I am a worker.
My work ethic is don’t stop until you reach the top pretty much and I put in dedication every single day of my life, I’m glad it’s paying off.
The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.
I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn’t look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.
I think when you look at Jimmy Butler when he came in, he hardly played as a rookie. He played more each year and then would become a top-10 player in the league. It’s a testament to his work ethic and how he approached things.
So I think an athlete in general, no matter what sport he does, has to bring this work ethic with him. He must be willing to put his heart on the line in order to accomplish something.
A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don’t hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.
There have been ups and downs obviously. But my bright spots have been bright enough for me to believe that I belong. And what I do day to day in practice, I have confidence from that work ethic.
I studied to be a journalist, but I don’t think I would have made a very good one. I don’t have the work ethic.
I have gotten disturbed at… some of the Democrats’ anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it’s very counter-productive.
I know what I need to work on; I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.
Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they’ve sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people – but they also stay out of each other’s business.
My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there’s no writer’s block allowed in a newsroom.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn’t mind singing careers… but the talent and the work ethic have to be on point. Kayla’s blessed to have all that.
In real estate, if you’re hustling and maintaining a good work ethic, you’ll get deals.
NXT is the top roster in the world as far as I’m concerned, the work ethic and fans.
My mum used to take me and my younger sister to work with her. She said: ‘You don’t want to be a cleaner like me.’ We worked as cleaners before we went to uni to save up money so we always had a strong work ethic.
When you work for Pat Riley, you’re not just putting your hands on the basket and hanging out during practice. He puts you in positions where you have to coach. You have to be enthusiastic and fierce with your preparation and work ethic.
I don’t have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.
Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I’m a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
His work ethic is insane. We all know Steph Curry on the court, making a lot of spectacular plays, shooting 3s from anywhere, from the half court.
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football – teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication – I got it all by being on a team.
We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don’t want. They all share one thing, and that’s the work ethic.
My work ethic is from sports.
I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.
I have a great work ethic – from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that’s work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they’ll probably give you a better job.
Thanks to the great fans of Milwaukee. Their work ethic truly inspires me every night.
We’ve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer’s son. There was a time when I didn’t, when I rebelled against it, but there’s certainly that sort of work ethic within me.
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
I can’t tell you exactly why my work ethic is the way that it is, but I know that I will always work harder than anyone else I know.
We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic; I want to see the nation return to the Judeo-Christian ethic.
When I’m doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don’t love every day, I’m not very good at it. That’s called work, and I don’t like work that much.
The American work ethic is, thankfully, still deeply engraved in rural Nebraska souls. This is who we are, and we here in Nebraska have far more to teach Washington, D.C. than Washington, D.C. has to teach us.
Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified ‘anonymous tips’ to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, ‘We’ll publish just about anything.’
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there’s something worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: ‘whatever makes you happy.’
