Quotes About Dedication

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

I've never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I'd be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.

T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet? In front of Big Lou's, fighting in the street But only you saw what took many time to see I dedicate this to you for believing in me.

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.