Quotes About Dedication

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

Democracy is hard work.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

One way or another we all work for our vice.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.