Quotes About Dedication

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

I've been on a tweeting mission.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

When I arrived, Bayern were sitting at 14th place in the Bundesliga and weren't in the Champions League. Twelve years later, I left with 23 titles.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.

You should be happy to spend ten to twelve hours a day wherever you work.

My wife had been a Christian since twelve years old.

Twelve years is a long time in any professional sport. I felt that that longevity speaks to something - and to the fact that I've earned a right to speak.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first' and hand it in, much to the chagrin of the studio sometimes when they look at the contract and go, 'You've passed your deadline.'

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.