Quotes About Dedication

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

A good dog deserves a good bone.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.