Quotes About Dedication

We always laughing and joking, playing around, but, you know, when it's time to go to work, we go to work.

I'm definitely not joking around on set.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Constancy is the foundation of virtues

It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

A fair estimate is that Bobby played one thousand games a year between the ages of nine and eleven, and twelve thousand a year from the ages of eleven to thirteen, most of them speed games.

After about a year, though, he concluded that the amount of time he was spending practicing the accordion was impinging on his chess studies. "I did fairly well on it for a while," Bobby said, looking back, "but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.

In boxing, you have to be disciplined. You have to train hard, eat well, and get plenty of rest. If you don't do those things, you won't be successful.

In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses . "About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life." "Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output." "Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

One man, one film.

The "secret" to success has always been the same: education and hard work.

To serve the Lord requires personal sacrifices. If one is not willing to pay the price he should never commit himself.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

In IBD, young associates spent twenty-hour days preparing "books," the bound presentations senior bankers flipped through during meetings with corporate executives. You took a job there at your peril. After several years preparing these flip books, you either would be fired or promoted, assuming you still were alive. After several more years you would be allowed to carry the books to meetings, and at some point you might even be permitted to speak.

Prac­tice doesn't make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.