Quotes About Dedication

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

La professionalità, Steve, è rendere il massimo anche nelle condizioni peggiori

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion then she lies.

Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.

Leaders must always set the highest standard. In a summer campaign, leaders must always endure their share of the sun and the heat and, in winter, the cold and the frost. In all labors, leaders must prove tireless if they want to enjoy the trust of their followers.

I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your heart by my side all along. — Y?ko Ogawa, The Memory Police , transl. Stephen Snyder (Pantheon, 2019)

At first, I was conscious of wanting to please the Professor, but gradually that feeling faded and I realized it had become a battle between the problem and me.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Though u have seen many, but u haven't yet seen enough. The good work always pays wonderfully

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

For those interested in patent litigation, commit early and never underestimate how hard you and the rest of the team must work. There are a lot of smart, talented patent trial lawyers."

Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.

How the prince of this world presses and throngs with clamours, more or less noble and good, but all in order to keep us away from devoting all to Him.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.