Quotes About Dedication

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Five years is a long time to play one part.

A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.