Quotes about Dedication

It's great to see my hard work paying off, even if it's not finished.

I'm in a small percentage of people that get to do what they love to do for a living. I'm lucky.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

We will never get anywhere in life without discipline, be it in the arts, business, athletics, or academics.

Not only did I play at a high level, I learned that personal discipline is the indispensable key for accomplishing anything in this life. I have since come to understand even more that it is, in fact, the mother and handmaiden of what we call genius.

Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are.

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.