Quotes About Dedication

The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.

The DJ opens his eyes and sees what he's done. By all rights, he should switch the song. But it's a long-distance dedication to the boy he loves down in Texas. He dials up the boy right now and holds his phone into the air. Not all songs need to be for dancing. There will always be the next song, to draw the dancers back.

I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it on you.

You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. I loved being the supporting character, because I felt it was my way of supporting you. I asked for nothing in return and wanted so much.

I'm keeping to you

The problem, says my sister, Kelly, is not that I can't get over Naomi - it's that I refuse to.... Loving Naomi and waiting for her to come back to me - it's not a stalker thing, but more like a personal mission. A job.

anyone can do more, but it will be our thing to do just one.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

when you love someone, they become your reason.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

I'm not talking what you preach-- there is no practicing here. I am talking living what you preach. And to do that, you gotta preach what you live. I know what I'm here for And I know what the Lord is here for. The gospel. I will live and die by the Gospel.

I run. I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought.

If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.

don't expect a magic formula that'll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.

Without the work, there is nothing.

Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—"A rescue snake, she'd be quick to inform you. This made it sound like he'd been snatched from the jaws of a raccoon, but what she'd really rescued him from was a life without her love. And what sort of a life would that have been?

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it.

Ours is the only club I'd ever wanted to be a member of, so I couldn't imagine quitting.

The one area of expertise you can never give up is sales.

sonríe a pesar del dolor en el tobillo izquierdo. En algún lugar leyó que los ganadores del maratón se vuelven héroes por tantas horas dedicadas al entrenamiento; el día de la carrera, en cambio, los héroes comienzan a llegar después de las cuatro horas. El día de hoy, se dice Matus, seré un héroe.