Quotes About Dedication

Even the apostles were tentmakers...

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. As Mr. Kazin told me: 'You don't write to support yourself; you work to support your writing.

All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true

Well, after this Racine paper, this Ronsard-purgatory, this Sophocles, I shall write: letters and prose and poetry, toward the end of the week; I must be stoic till then.

But will do 5 pages a day until plodding I catch up. Use words as poet uses words. That is it! Gulley Jimson is an artist with words, too – – – or, rather Joyce Cary is. But I must be a word-artist. The

Try to get into a story. Forget self and give blood to creation.

I am at Smith because I wanted it and worked for it. I am going to be a Guest Editor on Mlle in June because I wanted it and worked for it. I am being published in Harper's because I wanted it and worked for it. Luckily I could translate wish to reality by the work.

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come. I have been spoiled to think it will come too soon: without work & sweat. Well, now for 40 days I work & sweat.

For, I am committed to you

must become (since I could not be a nun) a consecrated single woman. Now if I were inclined to a career as a lawyer or journalist that would be all right.

well, anyhow, this is what I was meant to make for a man, and to give him this colossal reservoir of faith and love for him to swim in daily

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Again, rich people are committed enough to do whatever it takes. Period.

Wealth File #3 Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

Lo primero que hice fue comprometerme a lograr mi éxito y jugar a ganar. Juré que me centraría y no me plantearía siquiera abandonar este negocio hasta que fuese millonario.

I, ____________ [your name], do hereby commit to becoming a millionaire or more by ________ [date]." Tell your partner to say, "I believe in you." Then you say, "Thank you.

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

TO MY WIFE To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our wakingtime And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime, The breathing in unison Of lovers … Who think the same thoughts without need of speech And babble the same speech without need of meaning: To you I dedicate this book, to return as best I can With words a little part of what you have given me. The words mean what they say, but some have a further meaning For you and me only.

I have saved this afternoon for you.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which is a task in the same sense as the making of an efficient engine or the turning of a jug or a table-leg.

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," comes from ancient Persia.

I believe in deeds, not words.