Quotes About Dedication

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else.

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.