Quotes About Dedication

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

My father was a busy man who would do six to seven films a year.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.

I started my journey in music at the age of six.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

If someone plays six World Cups, they deserve to be congratulated.

There's nothing I hate more than having to cancel shows. In 36 years of performing, I think I've only canceled six times.

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.