Quotes About Commitment

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

My job is to just focus on basketball and you know, I don't really get a chance to really pick and choose who I play with.

It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.

First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

You can't pick and choose when you are going to be at your best.

About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.

I used to play tennis growing up and then didn't play for a good 10 years. I've picked up the sport again and I absolutely love it.

The love for fitness is something I picked up from my dad, and I make it a point not to miss working out.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.