Quotes About Dedication

Inventors don't have time for married life.

I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, "Never more!

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering,—in the hope that some one, no matter who, may find a solution of one of the pending great problems,—and each succeeding day we return to our task with renewed ardor; and even if we are unsuccessful, our work has not been in vain, for in these strivings, in these efforts, we have found hours of untold pleasure, and we have directed our energies to the benefit of mankind.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything...an inventor has so intense a nature with so much of it wild, passionate quality, that in giving himself to a woman he might love, he would give everything, and so take everything from his chosen field.

Kada sam prihvatao neki zadatak, nisam to radio sa rešenoš?u koja je svojstvena obi?nim ljudima. Za mene je to bio stari zavet, pitanje života i smrti.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made

If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.

It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Pero desde el primer momento RJ mantuvo la vista fija en su objetivo, que era convertirse en la mejor médico posible.

I have never had a money practice; it would have been impossible for me. But the actual calling on people, at all times and under all conditions, the coming to grips with the intimate conditions of their lives, when they were being born, when they were dying, watching them die, watching them get well when they were ill, has always absorbed me. —William Carlos Williams, M.D. Autobiography

No, eso es ser taxidermista. Yo seré médico y pasaré toda mi vida atendiendo al pueblo de Masqat en tiempos de enfermedad, que es lo que debe de hacer un médico. ¡Tú no eres capaz de decidir si quieres ser cirujano, taxidermista, médico o... comadrona con cojones! ¡Quieres hacerlo todo!

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do if you knew you would never be published. Would you still write? If you are truly writing for the art of it, the answer will be yes. And then, every word is a victory.

You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history.

If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.

There are plenty of young people who are appalled by the behaviour of the older generation, rightly, and are dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all. Well, that's the hope for the future.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.