Quotes About Dedication

I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.

Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.

They were working hard at their own myth.

Marriage," said Eddie Cantor, long wed to his Ida and the parent of five daughters, "is not a word. It's a sentence.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Mike Kelleher from Obama's Senate office was the person who stepped up to tackle the mess… He built the staff, drew up a ten-page strategic plan for the mail-room, wrote algorithms for a mail coding system, set up a casework decision tree, assembled a library of policy-response letters, and developed quality-control manuals.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

It was difficult, but I managed. When I had money, I'd buy film and we'd shoot. I think your first film should be made with your own blood. [On producing his first full length film, Le Silence de la Mer (1949) himself]

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

I believe in writing somewhat quickly, getting the story down; it can be bad, it can be a mess, but the key thing is to get it down.

even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

As a human being, he might not have been lovable—or even likable—but as a performer, he possessed unsurpassed talents that he honed through a lifetime of practice. On Sunday afternoons, he shared his gifts with millions, enabling them to forget reality and vicariously experience thrills that were more exhilarating than anything felt in a church pew.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

On the other hand, when you work hard, do your job, and help others on your team, you'll make a lasting impression. People remember who was competent, who worked hard, who was fair, and who was their friend. People will remember when you came through.

Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Here's the thing about life, you get back what you put into it. Life is defined by what we choose to do with it, the things we commit to, and where we dedicate our time. Life rewards those who work harder, who care more, who give it their best, then give a little more.

Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.