Quotes about Dedication

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

I wasn't some dilettante.

Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job

I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two "lost" episodes they did for German television.)

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

I called you to live at your best, to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence.

That's when the phrase (from Nietzsche) "a long obedience in the same direction" embedded itself in my imagination and eventually became this book.

Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.