Quotes About Dedication

I love to think of some of the greats like Dior, or Chanel, lying in bed at night unable to sleep because the image of a dress came creeping into their minds and they couldn't let it go, so on went the bedside light as they reached for their pen and paper to translate that vision into an image.

I cannot and I will not give up my family. I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers, but I pledge to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

I'm a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

If I go to hell for this—" "I'll be there as well. I'll dance with you," he promised.

You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.

I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Do right. Do your best.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?