Quotes About Commitment

I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.

You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

There's a difference between being in love with somebody and being absolutley in love with somebody.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can. So his actual death itself was less an event than a final sad detail.

You get married to get an ally against your family.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality. We were going to be different.

You don't learn how to be a SEAL in BUD/S. You just learn how to suffer.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.

It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life).1 Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working, instead of looking like you are working.

To do something, you have to VALUE something. It is a definitional issue. Because, to DO something, is to ACT OUT the proposition that the thing you are doing, the thing you are AIMING at, let's say, is PREFERABLE to the thing you have. And preferable means that you will do it.

It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality

When you are fighting against something than there's something else you are not doing.

Maybe you feel a bit stupid about it, but you do it anyway. And you do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. And, with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that's magic. That's compound interest. Do that for three years and your life will be entirely different

It's also unlikely that you're playing only one game. You have a career and friends and family members and personal projects and artistic endeavors and athletic pursuits.

We do the things we do because we think those things important, compared to all the other things that could be important. We regard what we value as worthy of sacrifice and pursuit. That worthiness motivates us to act, despite the fact that action is difficult and dangerous.

No one finds a match so perfect that the need for continued attention and work vanishes (and, besides, if you found the perfect person, he or she would run away from ever-so-imperfect you in justifiable horror).