Quotes About Commitment

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.

I'd like to finish my career as a Brave.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.'

I used to review games on 'The Totally Rad Show,' and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it's become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing.

I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love.

It's important to complete things and finish what you started.

There is no finish line to leadership.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.