Quotes About Dedication

Antes de tudo, a prática de uma arte exige disciplina. Nunca serei bom em coisa alguma, se não a fizer de modo disciplinado; tudo que eu só puder fazer quando "estiver disposto" pode ser uma diversão bonita ou aprazível, mas nunca me tornarei mestre nessa arte.

Tutku insan?n, amaçlar?na ulaÅŸma çabas? gösterme yeteneÄŸidir.

Der Mensch soll lernen, nur die Ochsen büffeln

It was not the first time I had caught her so. She used to come to us for two hours every morning to clean up the workshop; and though one might leave as much money lying around as one liked she would never disturb it—but schnapps she could smell out as far off as a rat a slice of bacon.

The dedication had been anticipated nationwide. Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth's Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands …

One line stood out with particular clarity: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

because I figured out who I was- the man who had been born to love you.

He's a guy with a one-track mind. When he starts for one objective he can't think of anything else.

A man does his best work when those around him are asleep.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say: "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck

All I know is I was possibly the only woman in the world dedicated to inner peace and tranquility who would end up with varicose veins of the neck from shouting.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say... I used everything You gave me.

What is one's true talent, his secret gift, his authentic vocation? In what way is one truly unique, and how can he express this uniqueness, give it form, dedicate it to something beyond himself?

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.