Quotes About Dedication

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

Sometimes we don't throw ourselves into it because we believe the small things are beneath us. What we don't understand is that what appear to be the small things are actually the big things. They're where it starts, and throwing yourself into them inevitably creates new opportunities for you.

Too many people have a job and they get a paycheck and that's it. Few things will inject more meaning and even, at times, joy into your work than you seeing yourself working your craft. Whatever it is you do all day, do you see it as a craft?

I'm with Logan, and I love him more than I thought I could love a man, and we have the opportunity to to be happy in spite of everything and I can't throw all that away for something more convenient.

Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had "thought that mothers never had to sleep.

He might love to read, but he was certainly no greasy grind.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself—ultimate cost for perfect value.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money, to the utter exclusion of all other interests.

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets are the reward.

I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—which is like being dumped out of a warm bed into ice water. This was the real reason why I had been doing so much nightwork and staying away from the shop in the daytime.

Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don't want me anymore. I have spoken." "You certainly have, dear. Hilda?

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You are a prize, Marlene said. You really are a prize. Have you spent your whole life learning how to please women? It's my life study, Starhawk said. Everything else is just a hobby.

How about, you never act like a jerk when you're working," Jenn said. Jesse nodded. "It's why I work," he said.

Stop the whining and get to work!

When I'm stuck," Healy said, "I go over it." "All of it," Jesse said. "Start at page one of my notebook and go page by page all the way through.

To say that Susan shopped would be like saying that sharks eat. It was disciplined frenzy. While

She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.