Dedication Required Quotes

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

You don't go into being a chef for the money.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

I think directing is a huge responsibility and it's not something where you can just be like, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a go!" I think it's something you really need to focus on, and put a lot of effort and attention into.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

The amount of effort and energy that goes into being an actor is something that I can't compare to anything else.

The UFC expects you to perform at your very best. If you're barely training, if you're spending the majority of your time on school, it's impossible to be at your best.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

People just do not realise what a football life can be. Since 1968 I've never had more than a few weeks out of work, when I left Sheffield United and I have not had a Christmas.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.