Quotes About Dedication

Don't give it five minutes if you're not gonna give it five years.

This type of work feeds my soul.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

First, love your work

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn't divinely inspired – it's hard work.

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

Todos los integrantes del reparto que he conocido parecen tomar muy en serio su trabajo.

Me la he pasado oyendo es ese tal polvo -, dijo Judy. - ¿Me podrían decir qué es? - Es una sensación especial respecto a este lugar -, respondió Marvin. - Las personas lavan platos y sirven comidas exactamente igual que lo harían en otro lugar, trabajan en tiendas y barren calles del mismo modo que lo hacen en ciudades de todo el mundo. Pero el compromiso es diferente.

Pero, al mismo tiempo, cuando cada persona se siente al mando, aun a escala local o temporal, esa persona toma en serio su responsabilidad. Esa persona es "dueña" de su trabajo, o de una parte del parque o de la situación. Y eso la hace preocuparse y tomar en serio el bienestar del invitado. Así es exactamente como se sienten los integrantes del reparto.

Una persona con pasión es mejor que cuarenta que solo están interesados.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.

I just looked in to stuff to do to keep me occupied. Alright, I'm gonna start dieting. I'm gonna start working out more. So then I started to lose weight, and then I started to see some results, and I started to drop some weight.

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

My big break occurred when I was six years old and met Scott Moir.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.