Quotes About Dedication

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

I just want to look better by each passing day.

I do a lot of kicking practice and passing, and it has made a massive difference.

I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.

I make plays in the passing game, blocking, doing everything.

I loved passing, just feeling the ball against my foot. I think any individual, if you enjoy certain things, you tend to practice it more. That was kind of me.

After what happened with my mom passing, I was just like I need to get back. I just need to get back to my routine, get back to playing basketball.

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

Find something you enjoy doing and give it everything you've got, and the money will take care of itself.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

if I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.

Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, "I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it." —Thomas Powers

From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

that absolute commitment to God involves a deep and sustained wrestling with God.

But the lesson and practice of running is, again, a faith in the possibility of positive change. That, if you run enough miles, with enough dedication and the right kind of mindset, if you accept the limitations of what's possible but refuse to accept the rutted path of what's painless, if you keep at it, if you keep going, you can become what it was you were meant to be.

Whenever I feel discouraged in my own progress, I remember what one Trappist monk said to me as he reflected on his sixty years of life dedicated to prayer, "I am only a beginner.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven't seen very good programmers who don't spend a lot of time programming. If I don't program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. - Joe Armstrong

I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.