Quotes about Dedication

Im hoping that for film actors there is this kind of emotional trigger on any subject. It need not be only slums. It can be anything. But even if it is tentative, sooner or later, it will - by its sheer force - engulf you in a way where you make a commitment and you get involved in it, beyond just making it an image-building exercise.

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.

Anyone would love to have the medal and a major trophy on their CV. When you reach Wembley, you think of the amount of hours you have put in training throughout your life, all the games you have played up to that point, and if you win a trophy, it is there forever as a reward.

It is about winning a trophy. It doesn't make any difference to me who lifts it; I would just rather win.

To come back from injury to qualify my country for the Davis Cup final and then to win my third trophy, it means a lot.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.

We're always going to be trusting the process.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.