Quotes About Commitment

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you're doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don't do this.

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That's the faith you have to have.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.