Quotes About Dedication

They have spoken, perhaps for the first time in their young lives, words that cannot be retracted. There is no turning back. They are in the Marine Corps, for real.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once you make your choice, do it with all your spirit. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love to his wife, and thought about making love to his wife while praying.

urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At

Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!

An overnight success usually takes about ten years. — Anonymous

If you became wealthy and would nevertheless spend some of your time doing just what you now do for a living, you are fortunate indeed.

To live is to find the thing that one does best, and then to do it thoroughly, and always. To do less than this is to never live at all.

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

You stay with her. I'll follow it in.

The sculptor Pete Garcia is found in his studio Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in his bedroom Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the yard beyond.

anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur

will. I swear I will.

She is practicing because she knows there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

people who are driven by something—or better yet, drawn irresistibly to a goal—do not count being tired as a bad thing.

If you always work with good, dedicated people, both above and below you, then you will learn to thrive in an environment of excellence.

creativity is not an easy equation. And there is no direct line. You are not born with it, and you cannot learn it. It is a combination of dedication, practice, study, passion, and desire all coming together at one time.

repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.

As the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee said, "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.

Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.

Smart practice always includes a feedback loop that lets you recognize errors and correct them - which is why dancers use mirrors. Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye - and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don't get to the top ranks. The feedback matters and the concentration does, too - not just the hours.