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.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

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

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

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.

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

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

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

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.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

I don’t like to be bored.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

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

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

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%.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

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

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

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

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn’t think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

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.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Mickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

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

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.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?