Quotes About Commitment

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

What we do is hard. This is not where people go to retire.

I didn't know Jeff Bezos but I just remember being blown away by the fact that he was there with his sleeves rolled up, climbing around the conveyors with all of us,

he liked to say he didn't have an exit strategy—he was building a company for the long term.

Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.

have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14

An interviewer once asked Bezos why he was motivated to accomplish so much, considering that he had already amassed an exceedingly large fortune. "I have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on.

obsessão pelo cliente; simplicidade; propensão à ação; propriedade; e padrões elevados de talento.

During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn't take that well. "The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority," he answered bluntly. "That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can't excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you.

Do not look into that too deeply. I do not fear commitment. I just have no interest in it. I

They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

He loved her. She loved him. Simple but there you have it. You both have careers and you raise kids and there are victories and defeats and you just sort of coast along, living your life, the days long, the years short, and then every once in a while, you remember to pull up and look at your partner, your life partner, really look at the one who travels down the lonely road right by your side, and you realize how much you are in this together.

I don't care about other kids. Only mine.

Saul Strauss used to be what Gavin would consider committed and passionate in a namby-pamby, Kumbaya-like, eco-green, granola-y, unrealistic sort of way, but more and more, the Sauls of the world had raised their rhetoric to the dangerously hysterical

She felt something deeper and richer with Dave, something driven by years and commitment, but maybe that was just fancy talk. That sort of electricity—had she ever felt it with her husband? Was it fair to even compare or think such things? Were such thoughts alone a betrayal? You

In this life you don't find too many people you can truly count on.

Myron remained unconvinced. "Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights? You expect me to watch her twenty-four hours a day?" "Of course not. Win will help you there." "Win has better things to do." "Tell that goy boy-toy it's for me," Norm said. "He loves me." A

here, Rocco." "Just stay put," Rocco

The separation deepened our commitment and gave our love a new distance-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder dimension. Nauseating

I love you," she said. "I love you too." And with that they agreed to spy on their oldest child.

This pain is better than the pain of giving up on him. A mother doesn't give up on her child. So I can live with the pain. I can't live with giving up.

He loved her. She loved him. Simple but there you have it. You have careers and you raise kids and there are victories and defeats and you just sort of coast along, living your life, the days long. The years short, and then every once in a while, you remember to pull up and look at your partner, you life partner, really look at the one who travels down the lonely road right by your side, and you realize how much you are in this together.

But Matt's unease returned the moment he entered the Sprint store and started hearing about the two-year commitment. The salesman's smile looked somehow satanic, like the devil in one of those movies where a naïve guy sells his soul. When the salesman whipped out a map of the United States—the "nonroaming" areas, he informed them, were in bright red—Matt started to back away. As

Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else.