Quotes About Dedication

I've been here in Richmond for six years and I still don't get it. To me, having the principal Richmond monuments dedicated to the Lost Cause is like saying we're dedicated to no hope, no future. It's like having a monument to unrequited love.

Andujar, Joaquin, 183 Anheuser-Busch, 181–82 Animal Rescue

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

I need to work to support my family.

Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.

is that they come up with so many ideas and then they manage to carry them out and believe so strongly in what they do.

I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. - An Eightieth Birthday

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

these rewards will include the pleasure of playing at 100 percent, the thrill of not knowing what is going to happen next, and the enjoyment of spending your life engaged in something you are passionate about.

It means committing yourself to continuously act consistent with the possibility you declared, from the moment the declaration is spoken, regardless of the circumstances.

Taking a Stand A declaration of commitment to act consistent with a specific "declared possibility" to move that possibility to a reality.

His racket never allowed Gordon to experience the vitality that came from full commitment to a project.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.