Quotes About Dedication

I go where the good work is being done.

I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.

I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.

Me and Kyle O'Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We've done good work.

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I want to become a very good writer.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

For a whole fortnight my mind and my fingers have been working around me like two lost souls. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Byron, Hugo, Lamertine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them, meditate on them, devour them with fury; besides this, I practise four to five hours a day of exercises (thirds, sixths, octaves, tremolos, repetition of notes, cadenzas, etc.). Ah! provided I don't go mad you will find me an artist!

In writing a few words of Preface I wish to express, first and foremost, my appreciation of the extreme care and conscientiousness with which La Mara has prepared these volumes.

Lookit!" he said, pounding a nearby table. "My job is not to deal with this people thing! My job is to kill the enemy!

The other danger is that apologists put so much effort into what they do that they may end up not so much defending the faith because they believe it is true as believing the faith is true because they have worked so hard and long to defend it.

allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do.

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

rien de grand dans le monde ne s'est accomplis sans passion

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.