Quotes About Dedication

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.

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The real challenge of life was not fulfilling one's dreams, but being willing to give them up for the sake of a greater call.

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I don't have the average thirty-eight year-old's body. I know my face looks old, but if you slid head first for sixteen years you'd be ugly too.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

And then I remembered something Leo McCarey said to me: "Always pay everything off.

Percy Buckle looked around his little room and knew he never had to weigh a pound of flour again in his life. I can read all day. Even as a grocer he had been a bookish fellow. All his life it had been the same -- even when he was too tired to manage more than half a page of Ivanhoe in a night, even when he smelt inescapably of sprats and mackerel, he had been a member of a lending library, and a regular attendant at the Workingman's Institute.

He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

Staffing the opportunities instead of the problems not only creates the most effective organization, it also creates enthusiasm and dedication.

Effectiveness is, after all, not a «subject», but a selfdiscipline.

2. Don't diversify, don't splinter, don't try to do too many things at once. This is, of course, the corollary to the 'do': be focused!

This is the "secret" of those people who "do so many things" and apparently so many difficult things. They do only one at a time. As a result, they need much less time in the end than the rest of us.

Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he'd be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. —ALBERT EINSTEIN1