Quotes About Dedication

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

Unless you must write a book, you mustn't.

To use a sculptural metaphor, the great novel, essay, biography is imprisoned inside a block of marble and the writer must chip away with a tiny chisel until the exquisite appears

The extra mile is a lot longer than the rest.

Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.

The world can only be empty if you will not put your heart and soul in it.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I do make an attempt to always get that first take…. You're not stepping up to bunt. You're stepping up to hit the damn thing.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life.

A fanatic redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

When our lives are lived for the Lord, to the glory of God, and in the name of Christ, all of life becomes worship.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Great loves too must be endured.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.