Quotes About Dedication

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It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power…Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you've attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you." Ian Malcolm—Jurassic Park

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.

The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of whatever kind -- these are right and proper ideals for life.

As a teenager, I virtually memorized my paperback editions, greedy for insider tips about the literary life. Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Colette, Waugh—they were all there. What has stuck with me the most over the years is their almost universal insistence on the importance of revision, of revising and revising again.

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

The game has to be real. You have to mean it. The game is a measure of you.

It was as though the hotel was more than just a hotel to him. "It was like the hotel was an expression of who he was, a symbol of what he believed in.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.

Having talent and not putting it on the line is just like not having it and desperately wanting to be recognized

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Carry on. If you're going to do something, just do it.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.