Quotes About Dedication

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

researcher Charles Handy at the London Business School concluded: Trust gives people a sense of belonging. When people feel they're active members of their work community—not merely hired help—they become interested in the company's future and willingly dedicate their time and talent.119

As researcher Charles Handy at the London Business School concluded: Trust gives people a sense of belonging. When people feel they're active members of their work community—not merely hired help—they become interested in the company's future and willingly dedicate their time and talent.119

Two thousand miles to dine on a dish of red herring," he said.

The building was old. A more prosperous community would have torn it down years ago, but Ice Islanders just kept fixing it, making do. The prevailing attitude seemed to be that good teachers and not fancy buildings were the key to a solid education. A teacher needed books, a blackboard, chalk, and a classroom. Period. The function of the building was to keep the students warm and dry; anything else would be extravagant.

I may not be a great surgeon, but the one little heart I have, I have given to you.

Imagine all the sadhus and priests of Varanasi. More than all of their devotion put together, that's how much I loved her.

Excel in your field: Whatever you do, try to be the best at it. There is too much mediocrity all around and we have learnt to live with it. However, awesomeness has no place for mediocrity. And do not confuse excellence with elitism. Being excellent at your work is different from considering yourself superior to others.

But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.

There are many youths, and some men, who most earnestly devote themselves to solitary studies, from the mere love of the pursuit.

Ice hockey players can walk on water.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him...

There's no crying in tattooing.

Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

If 80 percent of success is showing up, then 20 percent is following up.

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

Obviously, what we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Most writers have a cherished beat-up typewriter and a favorite well-maintained pen.

Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.

The traditional sacrifices of a writer are soul and sleep.

Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

In writing, you either stick with it and keep revising until it's done, no matter how long it takes — or set it aside a few years until you've distanced yourself enough to get it right. The wait is just as excruciating as the work.