Quotes About Dedication

Agatha didn't have an office of her own. She wrote her books wherever she found herself, so long as she had a table and a typewriter. Really, she didn't even think of herself as an author. Her primary occupation and identity was Married Lady.

She played the game the way that it was meant to be played?as if her life depended on it. And she seemed driven by some need, or struggle, or fundamental resolve, that preceded the basketball and made it possible..

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness - your own or another's.

It may seem arduous, but it is easy if you are earnest, and quite impossible if you are not. Everything yields to earnestness.

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.

When we commit to waking up and revolting against the ignorance and oppression of classism, racism, sexism, and all forms of greed, hatred, and delusion in the world, the first step we must take in that revolt is a personal dedication to purify our actions from these things that cause harm.

You can have excuses or success—but not both.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

languages. Rather, he gave himself entirely to the raising of Laura, a beautiful little girl who,

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

I am always polishing my sword. I am always perfecting my style." Ã¢â'¬â€œ Musashi Myamoto