Ivan Pavlov Quotes

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Love me or hate me, I hope the WWE Universe can respect that night in and night out, I've given it my all.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.

love at any age takes everything you've got.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,... is there a positive way to say obsessive? It's a good thing and if you're out there and you're working on something right now and you're crazed and you're up in the middle of the night, or you can't stop thinking about it, or you have to keep reading other things about the subject that you're working on or whatever. That's good and I think that's necessary creatively.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.