Perfecting a craft or skill, takes a great deal of hard…

The end result of how I obviously departed from the Cubs wasn't ideal.

— Kyle Schwarber

“So how are the wedding plans progressing?" Richard asked, once they were out of the village. "They aren't." Breckenridge heard his clipped tones, heard…

— Stephanie Laurens

“There are times in our lives when we labor so hard, for so long, that it may feel that we have nothing to show…

— Jaime Buckley

“The failure of India's public institutions to keep pace with the dramatic political, economic and social transformations under way has led to severe gaps…

— Milan Vaishnav

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's…

— Glenn Ford

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album…

— George Strait

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

— David Hurn

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important…

— Linus Torvalds

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of…

— Carlos Castaneda

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience…

— Anonymous

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as…

— Jill Douglas

“There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes…

— Stephen Braxton Thompson

Life is precious Life is a god sent gift and it is your duty to live it to the full. You might face several…

— Kaile Stewart

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That…

— Nicole Maines