Quotes About Dedication

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I may sound a bit crazy, but I get really excited with all the enormous hard work that I put myself through every day.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

As far as how I expressed 'practice, practice, practice' over and over again, I wouldn't take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

As crazy as it sounds, my generation is very lazy.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

I never thought that I would be able to make singing a career. It's great that my passion is also the source of my bread and butter.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

My biggest ambition, ever since I was a boy in Pakistan, has been to play cricket at the highest level. If I can do so for South Africa, I'll give everything.

If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.