Quotes About Dedication

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

There's also 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 never read in bed, only in my study.

My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I prefer rugby and my career would end by the time I was 30, leaving me enough time to go and study history.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I was playing at sixth form - training in the morning and going to the gym in the afternoon. I was doing my studying alongside it; then I'd go to training from eight to 10 at night.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

I'm always studying actors and movies. You can never not do your homework.

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I was making music simultaneously while studying B. Sc. and M. Sc.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.