Effort Quotes

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.

We don’t win what we don’t fight for.

If it was easy we’d all make it.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice?

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can’t leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.