Quotes About Dedication

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.

To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong.

The only sure way to fail forever is to give up.

Once I take you, you are mine. My woman. No other man can have you.

Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor.

To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel

A man devoted time to what mattered to him—to what he deemed worthy of his attention.

I told you. You own me. I'm yours. All that I have been. All that I am. All that I will ever be. Your happiness is mine. Your fury is mine. And your needs will be met before mine. I love you, and to me, that means placing you first and giving to you what I will never give to another. Power over me.

Ten tears fall, and I call. Nine hundred trees, but only one is for me. Eight times eight times eight they fly, whatever you do, don't stay dry. Seven ladies dancing, ignore their sweet romancing. Six seconds to hide, up, up, and you'll survive. Five times four times three, and that is where he'll be. Two I'll save, I'll be brave, brave, brave. The one I adore, I'll come back for.

Great. She was falling back into stubborn mode. But he didn't mind. She could say anything she wanted, do anything to him. He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper. "And

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Passion and performance. You can't have one without the other.

However, we must remind everyone that improvement of daily work is more important than daily work itself, and that all teams must have dedicated capacity for this (e.g., reserving 20% of all cycles for improvement work, scheduling one day per week or one week per month, etc.). Without doing this, the productivity of the team will almost certainly grind to a halt under the weight of its own technical and process debt.

Even though I can't take the entire day off, I

Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours.

habits are what enable mastery.

practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

Maxine remembers what it felt like to be the patient advocate for her dad, doing whatever it took to get him through the healthcare system. Now, she recommits herself to doing whatever it takes to get her teams through the company bureaucracies—the Data Hub team's sense of mission and urgency deserve no less. Relentless optimism, she reminds herself.

If we single-task on the most important project for two weeks and still aren't able to make a big dent, then I think we should all find new day jobs.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

Creativity comes with that little bit of extra effort.