Quotes About Dedication

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

The work is the most important thing.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I love what I do. I'm even loving politically what I do. I'm having a lot of fun. It's a lot of work but I love - it's called Make America great Again.