Quotes About Dedication

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

My mind-set, my mental game and my hard work is at a first-round level. I play at a first-round level. I've done things that most guys haven't done.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.