Quotes About Dedication

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

I've come to believe that in life it's best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

In Russia there will always be small groups of people, so dedicated to their ideas and so passionately feeling the misery of their homeland, that they will not think it a sacrifice to die for their cause.

Talented people succeed largely because they devote considerable time, attention, and effort to their topic of predilection. Through training, they develop well-tuned algorithms and clever shortcuts that any of us could learn if we tried, and that are carefully devised to take advantage of our brain's assets and get around its limits." —Psychologist and neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don't need that question answered.

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at my own expense. I sent these out as Christmas cards for Christmas, 1943.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

I am an exemplary student, one who never misses a class, who almost always gets the best grades, who is the pride of his teachers.

Tôi ch?c ch?n r?ng khi t?p trung cao ??, ng??i ta ch? có th? nghe th?y ti?ng c?a m?t cây violon n?u ng??i ta th?c s? mu?n làm ?i?u ?ó. Và ti?ng ch? c?a m?t cây sáo hay m?t cây ??i h? c?m.

There is no such thing as motivation in my world. I am not motivated to do what I do. As an artist, I am driven, I am compelled, I am thrust forward by a force so rooted inside me, so convincing, that it seems futile to try to explain it. Although it has a name: passion.

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air I breathed was the plan itself. Until I became the plan

E chi non vuole intraprendere una lotta accanita di sforzi inutili, pericoli profondi, trappole, chi non è pronto a dare tutto per sentirsi vivere, non ha bisogno di diventare funambolo. Soprattutto , non lo potrebbe.

Teachers know that love is a vital part of education. Good teaching is infused with it. The most successful classrooms are brimming with it. Love is the reason people go into teaching -- love for a subject and love for children.

I work very hard for my clients...I don't always win their cases, but I always give them 100% of my effort and I have gotten more good results than bad.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Remember, we do not rise to the level of our expectations, but we do fall to the level of our training.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist, you are learning your craft -- then you can add all the genius you like.