Quotes About Dedication

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are supreme.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI

Social work, teaching, nursing, and caring for the elderly or for children are among the lowest-paid professions, yet evidence suggests that talented and dedicated people in these positions generate societal benefits far out of proportion to their pay. One such study found that good teachers increase the average present value of their students' lifetime income by $250,000 per classroom

You spread yourself out too thin, my son. A man who can do everything can do nothing. We specialize in our country. I hire men who can do only one thing, and do that thing better than anybody else.

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

Great ends demand great means.

Some days I am on the road. Some days I am reading, and some days I am copying quotes. Some days I am writing letters, and some days I am writing chapters. There are no days when I am not working on the craft. There are no days when I am not a writer

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

A man takes an oath only when he wants to commit himself quite exceptionally to the statement, when he wants to make an identity between the truth of it and his own virtue; he offers himself as a guarantee. And it works.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing your career.

Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.

How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.