Quotes About Dedication

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance ' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I'm always thinking music.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

Trying is not enough

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

This," said T. X. exultantly, as he read the advertisement, "is where I get busy.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

the noblest work a woman can do is training and rearing her children.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.