Quotes About Commitment

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

My life is my work. My work is my life

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.