Quotes About Dedication

The only advice anybody can give is if you want to be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

One of the best ways to raise the level of church-attendee commitment is presenting an orientation of excellence.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Es gab einen, der ein halbes Leben an einem Gedanken saß - und die andere Hälfte für diesen Gedanken.

Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Celui qui n'est pas passionné devient tout au plus un pédagogue; c'est toujours par l'intérieur qu'il faut aller aux choses, toujours, toujours en partant de la passion.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Y creo que si me llamaras cuando ya estuviera reposando en mi lecho de muerte, tendría la fuerza suficiente como para levantarme e ir hacía a ti.

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.

Ben seni bütün bir hayat boyunca sevmekten yorulmad?m.

God had told her to take fees for instruction and healing. At first she had not grasped the reason, but then it had become plain to her. By making material sacrifices, the patient strengthens his own faith. The more he has to pay, the more earnestly does he desire to be cured.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

it's always good to know that one has saved at least one person, kept faith with one person, made a good job of one thing.

My God!' he murmured at length. 'You're taking on a hell of a lot, I can tell you! And the curious thing is that you infect other people with your almost religious faith — first those people out at Kekesfalva, and now, by degrees, even me.

nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain.

Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.

La vera universalità non può venire da fugaci letture o discussioni, ma va conquistata con anni e anni di ardenti fatiche.

Todo lo que de extraordinario y más poderodo se produce en nuestra existencia se logra sólo a través de una monomanía sublime, sagradamente emparentada con la locura

had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?

o güne kadar okulda kay?ts?z ve s?radan bir öÄŸrenci iken,ans?z?n birinci oldum,gecenin geç saatlerine kadar pek çok kitap okuyordum,zira senin kitaplar sevdiÄŸini biliyordum...

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as  Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Besides, so I shall be.

Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.