Quotes About Dedication

Artists, real artists, have to work. They can't be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That's exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That's what you need.

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

subject matter you select must: a) fire your enthusiasm and curiosity for at least the length of time it will take to produce a meaningful body of work; b) lend itself to images, as opposed to words and; c) remain continuously accessible so that you can return time and again to the same topic whenever you wish or have time. I

The photographer must have intense curiosity, not just a passing visual interest, in the theme of the pictures. This curiosity leads to intense examination, reading, talking, research and many, many failed attempts over a long period of time. I'm

Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which is making a difference in the world.

Standing beside you, I took an oath to make your life simpler by complicating mine and what I always thought would happen did: I was lifted up in joy.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

He was doing what he had always wanted to do: code games. And he was happy, in the moment as always, not thinking at all about what would come next. If he could be here working on games with enough money for food and shelter, that was good enough for him. As he told the other guys on one of his very first days, put him in a closet with a computer, a pizza, and some Diet Cokes, and he would be fine.

Carmack was building the guitar that Romero would bring to life. But their friendship was not traditional. They didn't discuss their lives, their hopes, their dreams. Sometimes, late at night, hey would sit side by side, playing a hovercraft racing game called F-Zero. For the most part, though, their friendship was in their work, their unbridled pursuit of the game.

The best way to sell yourself is to sow what you have produced, rater than tell people what you know, what you want to do, or what degrees you have. You want to be able to go to your prospective employer and say "There is a community of then thousand people actively playing a mod that I wrote in my spare time. Give me a job and I will be able to devote all of my energy to gaming, and produce something vastly superior.

He began by pushing himself to stay up one hour later every evening and then coming in one hour later the next day. By early 1995, he had arrived at his ideal schedule: coming in to work at around 4:00 p.m. and leaving at 4:00 a.m. He would need all the concentration he could muster for Quake.

It's how we train." "To drown?" "To never quit. Ever.

Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

an early Christian, like Paul, must have been wholly occupied with the religious propaganda, so that he could see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing, and observe nothing except the chance of converting some heathen individual or group of persons.

He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. "But a really fast finger.

Remember that nothing that's any good works by itself, just to please you. You got to make the damn thing work. . . . Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

19th March, 1872.—Birthday. My Jesus, my king, my life, my all; I again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me, and grant, Gracious Father, that ere this year is gone I may finish my task. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen, so let it be.

3rd October, 1871.—I read the whole Bible through four times whilst I was in Manyuema.

1st January, 1872.—May the Almighty help me to finish my work this year for Christ's sake!