Quotes About Dedication

And later, much to the disappointment of his wives, his consuming love remained self-improvement and invention, but only in his field.

people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

Mozart labored for more than ten years until he produced any work that we admire today.

I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it...

Without missing a beat I continue to play our black Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano and say, "Not now! Mommy and Daddy are working!" The girls get the message and withdraw.

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.

When you want to make someone better, when you love someone, you do everything. Anything. Even if it's crazy.

As long as she would have him, the rest of the world could go hang.

Intention without discipline is useless.

I loved them desperately. For four years I lived for them.

There had to be more to wooing a woman than feeding cattle, minding the store, tending the bar, and sex. That wasn't a bad combination in getting to know a woman, but now that he knew Jill, he wanted to hang the moon for her, make the stars brighter, and force daisies to grow from frozen ground.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

You are my finest knight

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

I was barely old enough to vote but I could easily enlist in the army, and I enlisted into the army of him.

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

Shooting speed for thirteen years can really put a crimp in whatever career you might otherwise be attempting to sustain—ask around.

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

I'll have you eating healthy eventually. Probably so. Seems like I'll do about anything for you.

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.