Quotes About Dedication

I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

I love acting, so I don't feel that I have ever struggled.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that's why they had such longevity and are still admired today.

I'm a guy who struggled to get to where he is, and only through hard work and dedication have I been able to find my success.

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

I have struggled hard to attain this fame.

I struggled for 10 years before I made my first film.

We should be proud of what Cristiano has been doing. He scores 50 goals per season. I struggled to hit 20.

Other fans get antsy when their team's offense struggles to score for a few possessions. Blazers fans give us standing ovations, like they're trying to will their energy into us.