Quotes About Dedication

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That's the level of obsession that I had.

I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my bedroom and pick up the guitar and play it. It became an obsession with me. That's all I wanted to do was play guitar and learn every lick I heard on the radio.

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

I feel like geek is about obsession. I feel like I geek out on certain things and that just means it's a mad devotion or obsession to something.

What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

Awakened' is very much about obsession.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.