Quotes About Dedication

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

The sitar is a really difficult instrument to play. Physically it's taxing because of the cross-legged sitting position, the length of the neck on the shoulder, the thinness of the strings. There's a lot of pain, especially at the start.

I have grown up listening to Strings and they have always been a source of inspiration to me.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.'

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I found this book that had every 'Peanuts' strip from 1952 to 1955 and read every one. Amazing. So now I can say I have become a big 'Peanuts' fan.

I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

In general, daily strips were just a regular part of my childhood. So even if I wasn't a huge fan of most of those strips, I still read them religiously every morning while I ate my cereal.

I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

You want to strive to be the best you can be, and hopefully one of the best, if you can ever make it that far.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.

I'll continue to strive for success and be the best that I can be.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.