Quotes About Dedication

most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.

You can keep waiting to get plucked from obscurity, or you can learn how to champion your project one person at a time.

the magic was in the guts it took to carefully curate the customers. Choose the people you serve, choose your future.

It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

What will make someone a linchpin is not a shortcut. It's the understanding of which hard work is worth doing. The only thing that separates great artists from mediocre ones is their ability to push through the dip.

the stupid thing to do is to start, give it your best shot, waste a lot of time and money, and quit right in the middle of the Dip.

When you lead without compensation, when you sacrifice without guarantees, when you take risks because you believe, then you are demonstrating your faith in the tribe and its mission.

Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start.

The future of your organization depends on motivated human beings selflessly contributing unasked-for gifts of emotional labor.

the opposite of quitting is rededication.

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

Quitting the projects that don't go anywhere is essential if you want to stick out the right ones. You don't have the time or the passion or the resources to be the best in the world at both. Quitting

You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.

Emotional labor is the task of doing important work, even when it isn't easy. Emotional

It doesn't matter if anyone reads it, buys it, sponsors it or shares it. It matters that you show up.

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

Quitting when you're in the dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the dip just wastes the time you've already invested.

Some people decide that their art is important enough that they ought to overcome the resistance they face in doing their work. Those people become linchpins.

Most of the time, if you fail to become the best in the world, it's either because you planned wrong or because you gave up before you reached your goal.

Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

If you need to be authentic to do your best work, you're not a professional, you're a fortunate amateur.

If you can get through the Dip, if you can keep going when the system is expecting you to stop, you will achieve extraordinary results. People who make it through the Dip are scarce indeed, so they generate more value.