Quotes About Dedication

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

When life becomes too difficult, I turn to my work. I swim into a new region.

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

Also, I entreat you: do not show your work in progress to any outsider. I mean Bradley or Kahane, or anyone who is not working with you, following your thought, entering into it. It is confusing. These men are not your co-workers or even friends. These men are outsiders. Keep to yourself. You need a deep cohesion, a strong forward continuity. Admit no opinions until you are through.

Make the Last Book the first of a series—a life job, like Proust's.

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Our hankering for a state of leisure or leisure state is the proof of the fact that most of us are working at a task to which we could never have been called by anyone but a salesman, certainly not by God or by our own natures. Traditional craftsmen whom I have known in the East cannot be dragged away from their work, and will work overtime to their own pecuniary loss. Why Exhibit Works of Art?

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value.

My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped

The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Forse, pinsò Montalbano, abbisognava fari un gran monumento, come il Vittoriano a Roma dedicato al Milite Ignoto, in memoria dei lavoratori clandestini ignoti morti sul lavoro per un tozzo di pane.

Dice sul serio?" "Sul lavoro non scherzo mai", replica duro il delegato. E nemmeno fuori dal lavoro, se è per questo.

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

Cinema is a very difficult and serious art, it requires sacrificing of yourself. You should belong to it, it shouldn't belong to you. Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.

Si alguien intenta llegar a ser director de cine, está arriesgando su vida entera, y él es el único responsable de ese riesgo

Whether one wishes to fly before it has become possible, or cast a bell without having learned how to do it, or paint an icon - all these acts demand that, for the price of his creation, man should die, dissolve himself in his work, give himself entirely. That is the meaning of the prologue - the man flew, and for that he sacrificed his life.

If this had been any other racetrack, I would have packed my bags and left.

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.