Quotes About Dedication

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Escribir es renunciar a lo que uno es y ponerse al servicio de vidas ajenas que te susurran al oído.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Set the bar high. Resist the easy button. Choose "mastery" over "easy" and know that great accomplishments don't come from low expectations.

mediocre marketing with commitment works better than brilliant marketing without commitment.

I tell my clients that the single most important word for them to remember while they are engaged in marketing is commitment. It means that they are taking the marketing job seriously. They're not playing around, not expecting miracles. They have scant funds to test their marketing—they must act. Without commitment, marketing becomes practically impotent.

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

By the work one knows the workmen.

By the work one knows the workman.

Ví dob?e, že provedení ur?ité skladby, zejména pomalé, vyžaduje výdej fyzické síly, ?emuž se radši vyhne. O? lepší je ležérní p?ístup - ten nedávno k dokonalosti, když zkomponoval doprovod k Ronsardovi na duši jen pro levou ruku, nebo? p?edpokládal, že sám bude prava?kou kou?it.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

Slowly but surely I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her

Writing is the hardest work I've ever done. I'm a mother, I had five children, I was working full-time, I was going to university at night, I got a master's degree in business administration, and I did all those things at the same time--and writing is the hardest thing.

The first draft of the entire six book series was written at one time, in one single burst of creative energy, over a four month period of 12 to 16 hour days of sustained writing, during which I did almost nothing else except additional research. I thought at the time that it would be one novel, Earth's Children, but it fell into six parts. It was only on rewriting that I realized that I had instead written an in-depth outline for a six book series.

When I first started I was obsessed--putting in 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and loving it. My in-laws told my husband that perhaps he should get some help for me. Once the book was published it was OK because writers can be a little crazy.