Quotes About Dedication

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices