Quotes About Dedication

Everyone and everything were becoming bricks in the comprehensive and complex edifice Aristotle was determined to build in order to reach the most profound truths. Those truths, as he made clear,† come not in a sudden moment of intuitive insight or from some inner contemplative process. They are the result of hard work and thought.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).

If you have been brought low through personal defeat; if there is a call in your soul to a deeper purifying, to a renewed consecration; if there is the challenge of some new task for which you feel ill-equipped—then it is time to inquire of God whether He would not have you separate yourself unto Him in fasting.

In the fasting for personal sanctity, we must also include the positive aspect of consecration to God.

Un perro no es más que una lealtad en busca de una causa. Dadle una idea a uno como yo, un amo o un objetivo en la vida, y se aferrará a ello con los colmillos apretados.

Al nostro lavoro si viene avendo già pianto a casa.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…

If you are willing to devote your life to continued growth, there are virtually no limits to the levels you can reach.

ground gained must be retained at all cost and never yielded. Once attention has been caught, and interest kindled, the task is one of consolidation: the original impulse and fervor must be safeguarded and never allowed to disappear.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

You are right," Josette said softly. "I am devoted

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight ' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.

I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.