Quotes About Dedication

We seem to do our best work when a bit of passion is involve. It might be true that we can choose our feelings toward anything or one. Choosing passion could be a good choice.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Never lose the hope that work done with love will lead to a good end.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

This was said most artfully by Michelangelo when asked how he created his famous statue of David. He said "it is easy—you just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or she does and just loves it in front of you.

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.

His verdict: "I have several sons, but I only have one ball club.

The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or she does and just loves it in front of you." When

I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.

On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.

To get to that level of undefended openness to learning, we have to practice as diligently as a master skier or a master cellist.

The power of your commitment brings forth the means necessary for you to live in your Zone of Genius. If

él estaba cumpliendo con su deber, estaba haciendo no lo que quería sino lo que tenía que hacer

You don't share me. You own me.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

I failed her in life. But I won't fail her in death.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want.

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence.

But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads

You don't need to be good; you just need to be committed.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I wanted to take something, learn it, and teach it. I was sucked in by that. - Tim Berglund