Quotes About Dedication

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country, fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline... so many fans jumped on board with us, and I couldn't be more thankful.

Richey currently smokes 50 cigarettes a day, having started two weeks ago. "Whenever I do something, I like to do it a lot," he explains back at the hotel. "When I was 13, I did a Shakespeare project that was 859 pages long. Everyone else just did six. I just had fuck all else to do but sit in and write...

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

But Jesus is stubbornly, ferociously committed to his church. ... he'll be there. That's the batch of people through whom he is redeeming the world, impossible as that seems.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

The last time I thanked my wife, Nancy-Ann, for enduring the tribulations of being a book writer's spouse, I kept it simple, noting only that she was the best thing that had ever happened to me. She still is.

Faithfulness is not just about your body. If you have committed to a person, then you have committed to them as a person. This implies the fidelity of your eyes, your heart, your imagination, your speech, your intentions, and all that makes you up as a person....The real value of love is proved by being 100 percent faithful.

compromisos son para gente que está lista para casarse, no para gente que no puede esperar a casarse.

Think: How many great achievements have you accomplished with little effort? Then why put less effort into the one thing you want most, which is love?

It is not moments of unleashed passion that prove our love, but the countless hours of commitment spent between.

When a guy really loves a woman, she doesn't have to plead with him to commit. He'd commit to her if she lived on the moon....You don't need to beg for anyone's attention. Make him work to win your heart instead of simply handing it to him.

He paid the codebreakers and scientists tiny salaries but promised to take care of them in all other ways. Food, lodging, recreation: they would live like the "minor idle rich" as long as they stayed under his wing at Riverbank.

To those who had a chance to watch them both work, the minds of William and Elizebeth appeared equally amazing and equally incomprehensible. Their brains were Easter Island statues, stony and imposing.

No time is no excuse

It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.

When you want something bad enough, you make the time—regardless of your other obligations. The truth is most people just don't want it bad enough. Then they protect their ego with the excuse of time. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.

We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.

Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.

soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

But the thing is, there's not more work to be done all of a sudden. The problem is that there's hardly any uninterrupted, dedicated time to do it.