Quotes About Dedication

Montana farmers today who continue to farm into their old age do it in part because they love the lifestyle and take great pride in it. As Tim Huls told me, "It's a wonderful lifestyle to get up before dawn and see the sunrise, to watch hawks fly overhead, and to see deer jump through your hay field to avoid your haying equipment.

The slaughter at Gallipoli symbolized the national pride of Australians, now fighting for their British motherland as Australians, not as Victorians or Tasmanians or South Australians—and the emotional dedication with which Australians publicly identified themselves as loyal British subjects.

Ilman itsekuria mistään ei tule mitään.

No code is ever completely solved, you know. —ELIZEBETH S. FRIEDMAN

For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S. government: for the State Department, the War Department (army), the navy, and the Department of Justice.

the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.

Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they've written, they write some more.

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

Yo enamoré a mi mujer haciéndole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Enthusiasm at its highest form is called passion.

Without passion, there is little enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, profits are few and far between.

A business that can't make the commitment to three entries a week doesn't need and shouldn't have a blog.

He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He

They also serve who only sit and wait

There is neither magic nor master's eye. Only a great deal of love and a great deal of work.

Art is not a pastime, but a priesthood.

You're only as successful as the last book you published, and you're only as good as the next book you're writing. So shut up and write.

El compromiso es un acto, no una palabra

I have a lot of writing to do and not as much time as you'd think. I do it at night now and look a bit haggard afterwards.