The craft and the imagination would not be there, would not be on call, without this singular sense of devotion and the time and the quiet and the health it seems to require.
When I go to conventions like Comic-Con or when I meet a Trekkie or a Trekker, if anything, I'm the one who's kind of in awe because it takes a great level of devotion and determination and time to sort of go, 'I love what this is.
Volunteering and volunteerism have been defined in various ways but are typically understood to mean the devotion of energy and time to an activity or service without the expectation of financial reward [ 24].
She applied herself to the study of stem cells with fanatical devotion, and still found time to attend Harvard seminars on a huge range of topics.
Like everything else in life, it takes discipline devotion and putting the time in to get where we want to go.
There are several steps that need to be qualified until the proposal is final and qualifies for the funding and it takes devotion of time and energy to succeed in this, so apply yourself.
This in turn would have made ongoing peacemaking a necessity, thus limiting the size of viable cooperative units and the scope of cooperative projects, as well as imposing significant costs through the devotion of time and energy to peacemaking activities.
… Indeed, the financial pressure and devotion of time to two children are quite costly … but my mother kept trying to talk to us about it, that having only one child is not good for the child, we are going to die one day, and when it happens MM (referring to the eldest son) will have no one in this world to care about him.
Restlessness and home, lust and devotion, heartache and good times, protest and patriotism -- all have etched his life, and his songs.
This was an Afghanistan of cosmopolitan wealth and industry, and of religious innovation, devotion and tolerance, at a time when Europe was mired in the Dark Ages.
