Quotes About Dedication

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

You don't have to like it, you know. All you have to do is to do it.

If that's the way we have to do it, then that's the way we'll do it.

El servicio es para lo que venimos a este mundo.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately—the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person.

L'odio che provi a fine giornata per tutto il lavoro è semplicemente parte del lavoro

Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith.

At the end of the day the hatred for all of the work is just part of the work

Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high. filmic mind Everybody was tired in a good way. someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. novocaine of the soul The original sense of addiction involved being bound over, dedicated The addict

mein kinder. Mein kinder, well it sort of means my family. He eyeballs me right square in the eye and says it's about how to reach down into parts of yourself you didn't know were there and get down in there and live inside these parts. And the only way to get to them: sacrifice. Suffer. Deny. What are you willing to give.

Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

Be a Student of the Game. Like most clichés of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

Take pains. Be perfect.

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.