Quotes About Dedication

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

By the 1990s, Ericsson's research was demonstrating2 that the same phenomenon he had first discovered among concert violinists also applied to the creation of innovations: that the cost of becoming consistently productive at creative inventing is ten thousand hours of practice—five to seven years—just as it is for music, athletics, and chess.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

It did me yeoman's service.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

don't understand the concept of retirement.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job. There is a lot to be said for that. That isn't wisdom; that's common sense.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

Let's ask D. L. Moody." Another objected and said, "D. L. Moody does not have a monopoly of the Holy Spirit." "No, he does not," was the reply, "but the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on him.

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If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.