Quotes About Dedication

elige una causa, un ideal, una visión, y demuestra que no te desvías de tu meta. La gente imaginará que tu seguridad procede de algo real.

Debes creer en algo, y con tal firmeza que anime todos tus gestos y encienda tu mirada. Un prerrequisito de la creencia ardiente es una gran causa que junte a las personas, una cruzada.

Understand: the more you want the prize, the more you must compensate by examining what getting it will take.

This process of hardwiring cannot occur if you are constantly distracted, moving from one task to another. In such a case, the neural pathways dedicated to this skill never get established; what you learn is too tenuous to remain rooted in the brain. It is better to dedicate two or three hours of intense focus to a skill than to spend eight hours of diffused concentration on it. You want to be as immediately present to what you are doing as possible.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

Un verso [de un poema] quizá pueda llevarnos horas; pero si no parece una inspiración del momento, todo el trabajo habrá sido en vano. LA MALDICIÓN DE ADÁN, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, 1865-1939

In other words, concentrated practice over time cannot fail but produce results.

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Know What You're Drawn to and Immerse Yourself in It

Daily Law: What's something you've always felt a pull toward? Dive deep into it today. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof that it is worth paying.

I've stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now?" Loial

The Warder seldom let himself get far from the Aes Sedai's side.

You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.