Quotes About Dedication

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way