Quotes About Dedication

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon.

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby.

Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy's reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won't be there anymore. The walls of the school will fall away, and you'll be on your own. The hours that you will then put into practice, study, auditions, and creation will be entirely up to you.

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Because if you love and want something enough—whatever it is—then you don't really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it.

Painting working!

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves.

If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you

I do what I do because I like doing it.

I don't think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don't think marriage is supposed to be an endurance contest.

I always try to remind myself that I am having an affair with my creativity, and I make an effort to present myself to inspiration like somebody you might actually want to have an affair with—not

Stop treating your creativity like it's a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art.

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a mater of discipline, really.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You

Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.

repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

If you do say yes to an idea, now it's showtime.

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go.