top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
Standard
Customized
More
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
Author Name
Personal Development
"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers."
Family
"I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha."
People
"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."
Actor
"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
Work
"Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth."
Corporate
"When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not."
Age
"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
Ability
"Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working."
Now
"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
Money
"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
Effort
bottom of page