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Quotes About Commitment

I Don't Have Time For Both A Wife And An Airplane.
~ Wilbur Wright
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
~ Wilfred A. Peterson
It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.
~ Wilhelm Busch
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
~ Wilhelm Reich
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
~ Wilkie Collins
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
~ Will Cuppy
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
~ Will Durant
The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects. I
~ Daniel Kahneman
Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.
~ Daniel Kahneman
We were forecasting based on the information in front of us—WYSIATI—but the chapters we wrote first were probably easier than others, and our commitment to the project was probably then at its peak. But the main problem was that we failed to allow for what Donald Rumsfeld famously called the "unknown unknowns.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Aici nu exist? mai devreme sau mai târziu... aici exist? doar munc?, asta facem aici.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Matrimonio. El secreto está en que, a pesar de todo, nos queremos. Yo no querría vivir sin ella: echaría de menos hasta su risa de actriz. Ni ella sin mí. Si no nos crispáramos tanto los nervios el uno al otro… Vete mientras
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterdessen so auf die Nerven fiele.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in an atypically practical frame of mind, wrote, 'When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everthing else in marriage is transitory.
~ Daniel Klein
Promise less than you deliver
~ Daniel Lapin
Follow the things you love! Follow the things that you are intensely passionate about. Follow the things that you like to do, which often to others might seem unimportant.
~ Daniel Libeskind
We are not merely spectators of the world but investors in it
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Il tempo per leggere, come il tempo per amare, dilata il tempo per vivere. Se dovessimo considerare l'amore tenendo conto dei nostri impegni, chi ci si arrischierebbe? Chi ha tempo di essere innamorato? Eppure, si è mai visto un innamorato non avere tempo per amare?
~ Daniel Pennac
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
~ Daniel Pennac
Le temps de lire, comme le temps d'aimer, dilate le temps de vivre. Si on devait envisager l'amour du point de vue de notre emploi du temps, qui s'y risquerait ? Qui a le temps d'être amoureux ? A-t-on jamais vu pourtant un amoureux ne pas prendre le temps d'aimer ? Je n'ai jamais eu le temps de lire, mais rien, jamais, n'a pu m'empêcher de finir un roman que j'aimais".
~ Daniel Pennac
Rileggere non è ripetersi, ma dare una prova sempre nuova di un amore instancabile.
~ Daniel Pennac
La première qualité d'un professeur, c'est le sommeil. Le bon professeur est celui qui se couche tôt
~ Daniel Pennac
If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living."- p.125
~ Daniel Pennac
Finding nemo took two hours, finding love take two people
~ Daniel Perez