Quotes About Commitment

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.

Monogamy is a huge time-saver.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.