Quotes About Dedication

I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R.' - which I'm just picking as an example - or be on a crime procedural.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

It doesn't matter who picks me up, I'm going to try and be a franchise player for them.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.