Quotes About Dedication

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

He was all that mattered to him.

To my dear and honored Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.

ali protivim se svakome tko se toliko posve?uje svome u?enju, radilo se o muškarcu ili ženi, da sve drugo izgubi iz vida. Osim pod nekim jedinstvenim okolnostima, smatram rigorozno i neprekidno u?enje gubitkom vremena te povredom kako uma, tako i tijela.

No; my heart tells me it is not. I might have thought so once, but now, I say, give me the girl I love, and I will swear eternal constancy to her and her alone, through summer and winter, through youth and age, and life and death! if age and death must come.

I should prepare and smooth the path of learning till she could glide along it without the least exertion to herself: which I could not, for nothing can be taught to any purpose without some little exertion on the part of the learner.

he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen.

S? meriÈ›i fericirea înseamn? s? munceÈ™ti pentru ea.

I strip the bed as fast as I can so I won't be tempted to get back in. Do you know what Mother calls this sort of thing? The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

but you have to make sacrifices for a good cause, and I'm glad I can make this small one.

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn't care about reaching out to the world, when you weren't hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.