Quotes About Dedication

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

working on this book has been those long

I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume.

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

I was simultaneously shooting for 'Manikarnika' and 'Ek Je Chhilo Raja'. In two-and-a-half months, I took 23 flights, including an international flight to Los Angeles. It was physically very challenging, shooting for both. I would catch up on sleep on the flights.

I was shooting for 'Bin Roy' and 'Ho Mann Jahaan' simultaneously.

The only sin is mediocrity.

A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that's their personality. It's not a sin to be business-like.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

Sinatra had deep loyalties to his friends for years.

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

I have always loved cricket since childhood.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always believed in doing my best, that one should aspire to be No. 1.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.

Since high school, I was in this band. And you know, it's one thing when you're in a band in high school, but then to have it last for so long - that's who I am and what I did forever.

I've been working since I was 7.

No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.

Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.