Quotes About Dedication

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

All I want is to be in the game.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Takin' care of that boy is the only thing I'm here for in this sea beaten world . . .

Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Entrepreneurship is a real test of once conviction

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.