Quotes About Dedication

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

This book is dedicated to "us." The girls. Friends who see one another through the hard times, big and small, year in and year out. You know who you are. Thanks;

This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Write. Publish. Repeat.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Discipline i]t's the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you've started.

self-annihilation is necessary for high art

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

All that is good and accomplished in this world takes work and a little chaos.

Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.

In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

Marriage is hard work, period.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

You have your friends, your work, your entertainment. Your dog has only you. You are his life, his love, his everything. —Kyra Sundance