Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

If I want to be called ‚The Rock,‘ I’ll be called ‚The Rock.‘ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I don’t like to be bored.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.