Quotes About Dedication

Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you're writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.

Si los mejores del mundo se parten el culo para hacerse fuertes, ¿por qué no lo haces tú?»

You Want to Be Taken Seriously? Then Take Things Seriously

Uno es recalcar que realizarás ochenta mil horas de trabajo a lo largo de tu vida.

Like Chuck Close says, 'Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will—through work—bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great 'art idea.

Don't let someone knock you off course before you reach your destination. Trust the work. Always trust the work.

No estás dedicando mucho tiempo a reflexionar sobre esta especie de macrooptimización.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

little part of me dies every time someone tells me they've taken a job as a "steppingstone" to something else, when they clearly aren't invested in it. You have one life to live. Time is valuable. If you're using steppingstones, you're also likely relying on someone else's path or definition of success. Make your own. What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?

And also, it's not about being good; it's about being great. Because what I find, the older I get, is that a lot of people are good, and a lot of people are smart, and a lot of people are clever. But not a lot of people give you their soul when they perform.

si no haces algo bien, no lo hagas a menos que estés dispuesto a dedicar tiempo a mejorarlo.

Si hicieras eso mismo con tu vida profesional, tendrías que dedicar cuatro mil horas, o dos años de trabajo.

Si piensas en algo más de tres veces por semana, tienes que escribir sobre eso"».

Do not let people interrupt you. Find your focus and you'll find your lifestyle.

Make commitments in a high-energy state so that you can't back out when you're in a low-energy state.

It just requires you to gives lots of damns, which not enough people do.

For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the best SEO," as Robert Scoble originally told me. You

Work will work when nothing else will work.

What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.

True fans are not only the direct source of your income, but also your chief marketing force for the ordinary fans. Fans,

You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.

Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.