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Quotes About Dedication

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.
~ Gail Kim
Filmmaking is a passion for me. Plus, that is what I do to make a living.
~ Sajid Nadiadwala
There are firefighters in my family, plus my aunt is now an EMT, and I want to do it, I want to help save lives.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
LeBron and I have always been about finding companies that we truly believe in and putting real money into them. We're not talking putting in $15,000 or $20,000. It's real money plus the expertise, understanding and knowledge that we bring, as well as bringing LeBron's name and likeness to the product.
~ Maverick Carter
Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the passion they have for their craft.
~ Ashok Saraf
I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
~ Charles Kennedy
My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.
~ Jo Cox
I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.
~ Kurt Busch
As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.
~ Greig Fraser
People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
~ Dean Wareham
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
~ Julie Plec
I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.
~ Gracie Gold
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
~ Hannah Kearney
I remember seeing the Olympics when I was 13. I always wanted to know how it felt to stand on top of the podium hearing your country's anthem while watching your flag being raised in something you poured your heart and soul into.
~ Oksana Masters
At the end of the day, standing on the Olympic podium on the top is what we're all really searching for here.
~ Eddy Alvarez
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.
~ Rita Dove
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.
~ Frank Skinner
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
~ Joseph Brodsky
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
~ William Temple
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.
~ Cecil Taylor
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
~ Anne Stevenson
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
~ Norman MacCaig
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
~ Claudia Rankine