Dedicated Effort Quotes

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. Meaning, get into a situation where you are with like-minded people who are just as passionate about something as you are, and then work really, really hard.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.