Thomas Keller Quotes

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you'll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

Guys are so good. It's just about how badly you want it. I want it real bad.

When people have a passion and desire, it burns through and shows.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Desire and dedication are everything!

I've learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. That if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. I mean, really wanting it. Not a preference, and not, "Gee, I hope this." I mean really wanting it. It is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I was told that I don't understand radio, should go into sales and all this. It was only my desire and love for what I wanted to do and what I was doing that kept me plugging away. I never at any time was motivated by an "I'll show them" attitude. Never was I motivated by, "I'll show them," that wasn't it. I just loved it. It was what I wanted to do. I was lucky to learn early in life what I wanted to do, and I knew how to define success, even though by the time I'm 33 I still hadn't had any. I was just on the verge of it, and I'd been working since I was 16.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

I want to run every race with a big heart.