Quotes About Dedication

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month.

As an artiste, I believe that I am not my own property. I am the property of my fans.

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master.

The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

We've got the blue-collar pros here in San Diego.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.

NFL players are pros, and they're proud of the work they do.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

Any time you get guys who are super professional, we call them pros' pros.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments all working to convey something. In writing prose for the memoir, if it's not working, it's just not working. It's harder to figure out how to fix it.