Quotes About Dedication

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

Never give up doing what you like :)

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

What we do is hard. This is not where people go to retire.

I didn't know Jeff Bezos but I just remember being blown away by the fact that he was there with his sleeves rolled up, climbing around the conveyors with all of us,

he liked to say he didn't have an exit strategy—he was building a company for the long term.

Eric and Susan Benson didn't come to Amazon alone every day - they brought their dog Rufus, a Welsh corgi.

have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14

An interviewer once asked Bezos why he was motivated to accomplish so much, considering that he had already amassed an exceedingly large fortune. "I have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on.

During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn't take that well. "The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority," he answered bluntly. "That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can't excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you.

Do not look into that too deeply. I do not fear commitment. I just have no interest in it. I

Whatever else a father is in this life—cop, fireman, Indian chief—he provides for his family. He

shooting guards. Myron

Somehow my father and golf were able to convey life lessons to me—patience, failure, humility, dedication, sportsmanship, practice, small improvements, missteps, mental error, fate, doing everything right and still not getting the desired result—without words. You may love the game, but as in life, no one—no one—gets out unscathed.

Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like getting some only on Valentine's Day.

This pain is better than the pain of giving up on him. A mother doesn't give up on her child. So I can live with the pain. I can't live with giving up.

It'll be great," she continued, forcing pseudojocularity into the cautious tone. "I'll fly home on weekends. Or you can fly out here sometimes. Say, you can do some recruiting out here, nab some West Coast clients. It'll be great." Silence.

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

The only difference, I suppose, between them and me is that I never set out to write shit. (That is: merely sufficient, average.) And of all the crimes that may be attributed to me—numbering among them rudeness, lechery, viciousness, imprudence and disgusting egocentricity—the one that can never be laid on me is the one epitomized by the line, "I just write what they want, by Tuesday, take the money and run.