Extreme Dedication Quotes

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

The definition of a fanatic is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has forgotten the purpose of his struggle.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

I would walk over my grandmother if necessary to get Nixon reelected!

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.

You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

I'm not a jerk, but when it comes to football and winning, I'm all-in for that.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for the office of President…. It’s a job that you have to be totally consumed with, and that itself is somewhat crazy..

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, 'Stop Working Out! Don't go outside!' He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done.