Quotes About Dedication

The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day's work for twenty years, seven days a week, and retire sound." He snorted. "The drive now is for pretty lawn ornaments. The Arabian horses were originally bred as weapons of war, and now they are artwork.

Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they'd better be dying.

In fact, "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually do something with one's talent, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistence to stick with it until it's finished.

For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished. On to the next, and the next. Check, check. Done and done. It explains—and solves—nothing to call this workaholism.

While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the gloves and sort of poke around inside the body. Is that a tumor? Will that limb need amputation? I nearly second-guessed myself into heart failure while learning to self-edit.

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

He had done it. He had taken her. Now all he had to do was keep her. *

Deliver more than you promise.

It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

I've been riding horses since I was eight. I've never ridden well. Still, there's nothing I'd rather do.

Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.

Creo que mis escritores favoritos son los que reconocieron que no podían vivir sin escribir. (...), tipos para los que escribir era tan esencial como el aire y el agua. Escribir o morir intentándolo. Esa forma de pensar coincide conmigo. Por eso estoy aquí.

I sacrifice everything to the music of the words.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

Always," I say to him. "Every time.

I wish I had a hundred years," she said, very quietly. "A hundred years I could give to you.

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Price said, "I would like to think that what I did was to illustrate to the world the ability of any regular human being to push themselves to the limits and beyond, physically and mentally, because of some deeply felt belief.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Vashet: "I will admit, I've never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time." Kvothe: "That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.

Practice makes the master.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?