Quotes About Dedication

But I wanted to finish your book.

You have to prove to New York that you really want to live here.

But books don't happen by accident.

Equipping is more about quality than quantity. It's much better to work with a few who really get it than a bunch who only get it halfway.

I love Lindsey's work. I didn't hang around with him for seven years for nothing, listening to him play guitar every single night, watching him fall asleep with his electric guitar across his chest. There were nights I had to pry the guitar off of him so he could sleep in a normal position.

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself.

According to the Times notice, Mr. Bauman called his employees into a meeting and asked them to accept a 10 percent reduction in salary so that he wouldn't have to fire anyone. They all agreed. Then he quietly decided to give up his personal salary until his company was back on safe ground. The only reason his staff found out was because the company bookkeeper told them. Bauman

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another...so they follow.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Passion isn't project-specific. It's people-specific.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It's only for those who signed up for the journey.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that's actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.

Your work is too important to be left to how you feel today.

Then a deadline arrives and you have to cut it short. Is shipping that important? I think it is. I think the discipline of shipping is essential in the long-term path to becoming indispensable.

You really can't try to do everything, especially if you intend to be the best in the world.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another…so they follow.

Here's an assignment for you: Write it down. Write down under what circumstances you're willing to quit. And when. And then stick with it.