Quotes About Dedication

Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners have it worse, but for sheer, numbing, endless (I do not, deliberately, say mindless) work, editing books is hard to beat.

There is no secret" to success, Fred explained years later in accepting the Horatio Alger Award, given to people who overcame adversity. "There are just two things. One, you must like what you do. You must pick out the right business or profession. You must learn all about it . . . so you become enthusiastic about it. Nine out of ten people don't like what they do. And in not liking what they do, they lose enthusiasm, they go from job to job, and ultimately become a nothing.

It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

High voltage wires can electrify or electrocute. It all depends on how they're handled. You can't play games with 10,000 volts. And you can't play games with the power of God. Serving Him is serious business. Our carefree attitudes must go. We must carry out His work in His way, or His fire will consume us instead of our offerings.

Of course I'm excited about the Nobel. But I am passionate about my research. Passion is really important for anything you do; it's a general requirement

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

What those who were contemptuous of sports misunderstood was not merely that a middle-class sports fan might revere football to the same degree that an inveterate theatergoer revered Shakespeare, but that he might do so for many of the same reasons.

You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.

Long ago, Margaret Mead, the world-famous anthropologist, noted that we should "never underestimate the power of a small group with dedication to change the world; it is, in fact, the only thing that does.

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

Do what you love, and you will love what you do. Knowing what you want is the key to the growth and development of persistence. Knowing what you want will allow you to form definiteness of purpose. Some call this a "made up mind". It's hard to stop a person with a "made up mind". Make up your mind and decide what you want, and you will be persistent.

Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

I often found myself curled up at midday on a hard wooden bench, snoring lightly, drooling on the back of my hand, trying to sleep off my exuberance—and then waking to a headache and a bushel of horrible paragraphs. Admittedly

Firemen: your worst day is our everyday.

"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite simple- make a habit of doing things other's weren't willing to do.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Robotham

And we're going to be here for fifty years, so whatever is not right, we'll get right.