Quotes About Commitment

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

I'll always be a student of music.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.

My students have shown me so many times that it's not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position - it's about showing up when you're needed.

We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.

I would like to give acting a go. I studied it for a long time; I just want to make sure when I do it I am able to put in as much effort as I do to modeling.

I studied hard and completed my engineering. And I also pursued music that was my passion.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

Before taking up law, I studied medicine for six months and then tried my hand at fashion designing for another six months. I wanted to find something that excited me. Finally, it was law that captured my interest.

I've studied Charlie Chaplin for years. I've studied Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, all of them. I don't play around. This is not a game.