Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
-- George Lucas
For more about George Lucas, keep reading....
About the Quote
Working hard is the guaranteed way to achieve long-term success. This is because taking shortcuts can backfire and set one back a little or a lot. It also cheats us of the opportunity to develop and to acquire the habits and good practices needed to become successful.
It's been said that we become experts at something after we have devoted ten thousand hours to it. That's enough hours to take up about 14 months of life, 24/7/365. In the process of working hard, we develop better decision-making skills along with better pattern recognition abilities. Even the mistakes we make along the way will happen faster, be fixed sooner, and occur less often. During the process of training during those 10K hours, what we dome becomes second-nature to us to the point where it's almost instinctual.
Practice makes perfect, but it takes time to reach that skill level.
Some (More) Information about George Lucas
Lucasfilm, the studio George Lucas founded in 1971, was set up for making movies. However, after the release of the 1977 movie he declared in a low profile announcement that he was retiring from directing movies and repurposing Lucasfim as an incubator for films to be directed by directors under his tutelage. He also said that he would return to directing about 20 years in the future for an ambitious series of movies born of the Star Wars universe he had established. Although he didn't direct The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), he has credits on those movies as executive producer.
George Lucas stayed true to his word, letting others direct movies under the Lucasfilm banner. The Indiana Jones movies were a collaboration between him and Steven Spielberg, with Spielberg doing the directing. For the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s Lucas was either a producer or executive producer. During this period, he had both minor successes (such as Willow in 1988) and incredible failures (such as Howard the Duck in 1986). Given his new status, George Lucas was able to server as an executive producer for role model Akira Kurosawa on his 1980 film {Kagemusha}.
George Lucas also expanded his work into television. He created The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which aired on television in 1992 and 1993. Although this series wasn't a success in terms of Nielsen ratings, it gave Lucas an opportunity to let ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) experiment with new special effects techniques. On a related note, ILM had become by far the acknowledged leader in special effects technologies; nearly any big-budget movie needing SFX hired ILM. Movies included Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and The Hunt for Red October (1990).
-- Source
Post Details
- Index4INDEX image made by @magnacarta using MS Paint.
- Quotes I use for Index4INDEX are stored in an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. Recently I added database functionality for limited searching.
Other Quotes by George Lucas
- Index4INDEX Card 329: George Lucas 3
- Index4INDEX Card 323: George Lucas 2
- Index4INDEX Card 321: George Lucas 1
Other Recent Quotes
- Index4INDEX Card 336: Barbara Corcoran 2
- Index4INDEX Card 335: Walt Disney 2
- Index4INDEX Card 334: J. K. Rowling 3
📇📇📇📇📇📇📇📇📇
Sign up to become a Keyboard Warrior
Do you like posting short bursts of text? Do it 240-characters at a time at LeoThreads.