Quotes About Dedication

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.

When you're going to games, you're going to work -- and that's something that, over the years, I've had to gravitate to. The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

I came to New York for a reason. I've been with you all my life, almost to a fault. I wanted to come here and take on the pressures of playing in New York. So one thing I would tell my fans: If you haven't heard it from me, then it ain't true.

Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. —LARRY SMITH, TEDx, NOVEMBER 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.

The only way to have a great career, says Smith, is to do what you love.

Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Apple team and now an engineer at Google, once said that what Jobs taught him was to "follow your heart" and only great work comes out of doing what you adore.

Find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,

To the High Heavens I praise the potato, and recommend planting it, eating it, and honoring it.

I believe ability can get you to the top," says coach John Wooden, "but it takes character to keep you there.… It's so easy to … begin thinking you can just 'turn it on' automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, 'More than ability, they have character.'

Effort gives meaning to life.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." —ÉMILE ZOLA

I consecrate this deck to bring light wherever there is darkness," River said, "and I dedicate this deck for guidance and wisdom for myself and others for the highest good for all concerned.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.

Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved—with tremendous drive and enthusiasm—and it led where it led.

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.