Quotes About Dedication

His work has been his necessity and his desire.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away. - 1993 I

I had made a significant change in my relation to the place: before, it had been mine by coincidence or accident; now it was mine by choice. My return, which at first had been hesitant and tentative, grew wholehearted and sure. I had come back to stay. I hoped to live here the rest of my life. And once that was settled I began to see the place with a new clarity and a new understanding and a new seriousness.

Hey Almanzo, if you liked it then you should've built a shanty on it.

Everyone at Disney worked long hours. But nobody worked harder than Walt. He drove himself to the point of collapse. He was exhausted and more moody than ever.

I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

I said, No man is worth fretting for in that way. And she said, There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.

The only dedication in one of the hosts of books I have had the privilege of knowing, is from the great contemporary thinker, Will Durant whose incredible encyclopedic mind had within it- the poetry of the heart, I quote: " TO MY WIFE Grow strong, my comrade…that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Saint-Lambert, it is all for thee The flower grows; The rose's thorns are all for me; For thee the rose.

Let me have seven hours a week, and I will make a scholar and a philosopher out of you; in four years, you shall be as well educated as any new-fledged Doctor of Philosophy in the land.

I still believe in good and bad, in black and white, in right and wrong. I believe the guilty should be punished. I believe the law enforcement community has an obligation to make the world a better place, a safer placce. And I believe that with dedication and hard work, everyone can make a difference. Even lawyers. - Jack Bullock

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out. (Dedication for a Plot of Ground)

I have always associated [Al Que Quiere!] with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him. [...] I was convinced nobody in the world of poetry wanted me but I was there willing to pass the ball if anyone did want it.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

I write when I am inspired and I make sure I am inspired every day.