Quotes About Dedication

Acquiring expertise in chess is harder and slower than learning to read because there are many more letters in the "alphabet" of chess and because the "words" consist of many letters. After thousands of hours of practice, however, chess masters are able to read a chess situation at a glance.

It is difficult to reconstruct what it was that took us years, long hours of discussion, endless exchanges of drafts and hundreds of e-mails negotiating over words, and more than once almost giving up. But this is what always happens when a project ends reasonably well: once you understand the main conclusion, it seems it was always obvious.

We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

Quisiera que mi determinación adquiriera determinaciones legendarias.

Aici nu exist? mai devreme sau mai târziu... aici exist? doar munc?, asta facem aici.

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

Follow the things you love! Follow the things that you are intensely passionate about. Follow the things that you like to do, which often to others might seem unimportant.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Ils [ces professeurs habités par la passion communicative de leur matière] accompagnaient nos efforts pas à pas, se réjouissaient de nos progrès, ne s'impatientaient pas de nos lenteurs, ne considéraient jamais nos échecs comme une injure personnelle et se montraient avec nous d'une exigence d'autant plus rigoureuse qu'elle était fondée sur al qualité, la constance et la générosité de leur propre travail. (p. 259)

Le temps de lire, comme le temps d'aimer, dilate le temps de vivre. Si on devait envisager l'amour du point de vue de notre emploi du temps, qui s'y risquerait ? Qui a le temps d'être amoureux ? A-t-on jamais vu pourtant un amoureux ne pas prendre le temps d'aimer ? Je n'ai jamais eu le temps de lire, mais rien, jamais, n'a pu m'empêcher de finir un roman que j'aimais".

La première qualité d'un professeur, c'est le sommeil. Le bon professeur est celui qui se couche tôt

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

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I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

There us no point for me … to work every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience.

There us no point for me … to work hard every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience. 90

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

Yeah, but if your heart isn't in it, you need to be where your heart is.

This book is dedicated to you, who taught me how profoundly one human being can love another.