Quotes About Dedication

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

I'm planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don't know. I don't want to be a Senator until I'm honored.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.