Quotes About Dedication

But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

I found the power to move beyond the steps, to not merely dance the part but to become it.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

A prerequisite for a successful scientific career is an enthusiastic willingness to pore through the minutiae of subjects that 99.9 percent of Earth's population find screamingly dull.

The price of tuition for Self University is desire. Your degree is a better life.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)"

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

The cover letter is seen by our actions. (La lettre de motivation se voit par nos actions)"

The wedding is to be sentenced for life for good past conduct. (Le mariage, c'est être condamné A vie pour bonne conduite passée)

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.