Quotes About Commitment

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." – James Lee Burke

at least ten writing sessions.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

I'll do it. I'll work with the Juggernaut Collective.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

You know wherever I am, I'll come running to see you again

Always do your absolute best. When you do your absolute best you can ALWAYS Expect To Win.

Don't get it right, get it written.

He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.

those guys who wore a wedding ring that didn't really look like a wedding ring—or maybe it wasn't a wedding ring at all and he was just super-proud of his Celtic

What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

unfortunately it's necessary," he said, sniffling and wiping his nose on his sleeve. His course load was

Walk your talk.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

I have ever preferred that a man should tell me face to face that he will or will not do a thing, than to promise to do it and then to not do it.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

Once Roosevelt had agreed to be drafted and assumed the responsibility of running for governor, he was in it for keeps. "When you're in politics you have to play the game," he told a friend.

What convinces is conviction," Johnson liked to say. "You simply have to believe in the argument you are advancing." In this instance, Johnson spoke directly from the heart.

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds," Roosevelt frequently charged.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.