Quotes About Commitment

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

When I go out onto the pitch, I don't do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

I'm not saying coaching has never crossed my mind. But it's worth pointing out that if I decided tomorrow that I wanted to be a manager and I started getting my badges through the FA, it would take me four and a half years to complete my training.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

When I first came to Chelsea, I couldn't kick the ball, and it was pointless, me playing, really. But I tried to play through the pain for the manager who bought me.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.