Lack of Dedication Quotes

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed."

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

I'm not a big practice guy at all.

Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of.

I'm not dedicated to the game at all.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

I always thought that I was going to be up there, whether it's was in the top 20, top 10, and I wasn't training hard, but I thought, you know... my strength, my presence, my talent would just keep me up there, without really training hard and really committing myself to the game.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

What you do for money you do badly.

Oh, I fooled around with baseball, but I never really took it serious.