Orison Swett Marden Quotes

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

Give your 100 per cent. Whether you are working or with family and friends. Even if you are sleeping, you should give it your 100 per cent.

I try to be committed, always. When I do something, I like to do it 100 per cent.

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.

I always give my 100 per cent.

'Siya Ke Ram' will leave us with hardly any scope to think of other projects. And I wouldn't want to work on something and not be whole-hearted in it, either.