Quotes About Dedication

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

John Hurt was incredible to work with.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

I pretty much work all the time.

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.