Quotes About Dedication

curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.

CiteÅŸte, citeÅŸte, citeÅŸte. CiteÅŸte totul – gunoi, clasicii, r?ii ÅŸi bunii, ÅŸi vezi cum scriu. La fel ca un tâmplar care lucreaz? ca ucenic ÅŸi îÅŸi studiaz? maestrul. CiteÅŸte! Vei absorbi asta. Apoi scrie. Dac? ai scris ceva bun, vei afla. Dac? nu, arunc? ce-ai scris pe fereastr?.

Don't be a writer; be writing.

When you surf, as I then understood it, you live and breathe waves. You always know what the surf is doing. You cut school, lose jobs, lose girlfriends, if it's good.

Chicks had to realize, he said, that when they married a surfer, they married surfing. They had to either adapt or split.

Chasing waves in a dedicated way was both profoundly egocentric and selfless, dynamic and ascetic, radical in its rejection of the values of duty and conventional achievement.

Surfing, to begin with, was not a "sport." It was a "path." And the more you poured into it, the more you got back from it—he

Tokyu Hands assumes that the customer is very serious about something. If that happens to be shining a pair of shoes, and the customer is sufficiently serious about it, he or she may need the very best German sole-edge enamel available—for the museum-grade weekly restoration of the sides of the soles.

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Why was it worth so much of your life?" "Because I could not fail him again." "Fail who?" "My father.

She fell fast and she fell hard, but what did that matter, since she would have gladly dropped a thousand feet onto a bed of nails if Westley had been waiting at the bottom. Down

No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.

Non hai pensato che ho sostenuto grandi sforzi e molte spese, e sono incorso in disagi personali, per arrivare fin qui» osservò l'uomo in nero «e se fallisco ora, potrei arrabbiarmi molto? E se lei dovesse smettere di respirare, tu potresti ammalarti della stessa fatale malattia?»

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace is to be the first consideration in your eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.

he was as good as his word, for he became a teetotaler, a nonsmoker and a vegetarian to boot

What was the point of dedicating your life to giving warnings if everyone who might have listened—because the majority were still unbothered and would possibly remain so till the sun went out—merely nodded and agreed?

He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî