Quotes About Dedication

I don't believe in luck. There are things that you have to work hard for.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.