Quotes About Commitment

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

We do think deeply about the sequencing of our games, but having said that, Nintendo is well-known that if a game isn't ready, we will push out the development in order to make sure that it is as strong as possible when the game launches.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.

People have no clue how demanding my schedule was back in the day. There were times when I might be home for just one or two days a month.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

Money, autographs, I had no desire to even do that. I fell in love with fighting and those types of things became attached to it.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

There's no doubt in my mind. I think defensively, the number one thing is knowing the job and to compete.