Quotes About Dedication

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

no matter how inconvenient it was to him. That's what love's all about.

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.

I can't do anything else but my

He was not being a propagandist, but simply stating a creed, a creed to which he brought an absolutely single-minded, self-denying devotion, with no half-shades of humour, self-criticism or doubt.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Talent is only the starting point.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

kau harus memperlakukan kegiatan menulismu sebagai sebuah karier. Kau tidak boleh membicarakannya. Kau harus melakukannya-ingin melakukannya, suka melakukannya walaupun harus kesepian, merasa bahwa di bumi tidak ada yang lebih penting ketika kau sedang melakukannya.

menulislah setiap hari, berpura-pura bahwa kau menerima gaji, berpura-pura bahwa kau harus menyerahkan sesuatu atau dipecat

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.

Why does a man spend fifty years of his life in an occupation that is often painful? I once told a class I was teaching that writing is an intellectual contact sport, similar in some respects to football. The effort required can be exhausting, the goal unreached, and you are hurt on almost every play; but that doesn't deprive a man or a boy from getting peculiar pleasures from the game.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.

Movies take years to bring to theater, but hours to watch. Strikingly similar to success.

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.

You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.