Something just doesn't pop under your nose;you have to work for it. ― LeBron James

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You can only work on yourself. Start there. ― Alice O. Howell

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. – Lucille Ball

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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work – Calvin Coolidge

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Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. ― Mary Oliver

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Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie

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I'm from the old school; hard work pays off. - John David Washington

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