Nate Dogg Quotes

The downside of dabbling in different industries is that you don't have your roots anywhere and you don't know where your real demand is.

Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it. You have to get involved and learn as much as possible and go for it.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

In the long run, it's probably better to tie yourself down to one position and really become established in one area to be as good as you can in that position.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

As long as I stay consistent as my career goes, I'm good with it.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

The thing that you do obsessively between the ages of 13 and 18 is the thing that you stand the best chance of being world class at.