Quotes About Dedication

Cómo se mide el éxito en última instancia? Para mí no consiste en medir el mucho tiempo que dedicas a hacer lo que te gusta. Sino en medir el poco tiempo que pasas haciendo lo que odias. Y esta mujer se pasaba todo el día y todos los días haciendo lo que más le gustaba.»

1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly] was one of the seminal articles that inspired me to really build amazing material, rather than just recycling what else was out there. I knew that if I had 1,000 true fans, then not only would I be able to live doing the things I wanted, but I would be able to turn that into 2,000, 5,000, 10,000—and that is exactly what happened.

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

Sometimes you need to stop doing things you love in order to nurture the one thing that matters most.

como si eso fuera una especie de medalla de honor que simboliza ética laboral,

I've given it to, maybe ten of them have actually opened the book and done the exercises. Of those ten, seven have had books, movies, TV shows,

There is very little luck involved. Winning your great job is about hard work, stamina, grit, ingenuity, and timing.

If you want to be a stud later, you have to be a pud now.

I aspire to only work with people who I can work with forever, to invest my time in activities that are a joy unto themselves, and to focus on the extremely long term.

Si te distraes o empiezas a posponerlo, no pierdas los nervios ni caigas en la espiral negativa; retoma con docilidad la tarea número UNO.

Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game.

I remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that very evening." Susan Cain

Has the other person ever doubted your commitment?

but the call here is not so much about specific activities as it is about a lifestyle committed to God's purposes, encompassing all the details of daily life.

The call we have considered in this chapter is not just a call to ministry; it is a call to worship.

The rest of this book is about hard work, but it is the best work you will ever do. If

I wanted to serve, but it had to be on my terms and on my time schedule.

Before you deride the "mainstream media," note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy, and actual journalism that is edgy and difficult. So try for yourself to write a proper article, involving work in the real world: traveling, interviewing, maintaining relationships with sources, researching in written records, verifying everything, writing and revising drafts, all on a tight and unforgiving schedule.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back.

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.

The boxing gloves are really itchy, and doing press ups in them is hard, but I love acting so much that it's worth it.

Education is the key to unlock the doors of opportunity and success, but it requires dedication, hard work, and a willingness to never stop learning.

Those who maintain that writing cannot be taught are in effect promoting the Priesthood Theory of Writing. I short, a few are called, most are not, and nothing anyone does can alter that process.