Quotes About Dedication

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

You don't just become a success overnight.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

When you start off as a dancer, you don't become one overnight; you must train for more than a decade.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

It's definitely not an overnight success. There has been a lot of work, effort and concentration to get where I am now. I've gone through different experiences, good and tough, to mould me into the player I am now.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.