Quotes About Dedication

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around