Quotes About Commitment

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

The harder you work when nobody's watching the less you bleed when it's time to perform.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."