Quotes About Commitment

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. As Mr. Kazin told me: 'You don't write to support yourself; you work to support your writing.

All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself

Well, after this Racine paper, this Ronsard-purgatory, this Sophocles, I shall write: letters and prose and poetry, toward the end of the week; I must be stoic till then.

But will do 5 pages a day until plodding I catch up. Use words as poet uses words. That is it! Gulley Jimson is an artist with words, too – – – or, rather Joyce Cary is. But I must be a word-artist. The

Try to get into a story. Forget self and give blood to creation.

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come. I have been spoiled to think it will come too soon: without work & sweat. Well, now for 40 days I work & sweat.

For, I am committed to you

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

must become (since I could not be a nun) a consecrated single woman. Now if I were inclined to a career as a lawyer or journalist that would be all right.

well, anyhow, this is what I was meant to make for a man, and to give him this colossal reservoir of faith and love for him to swim in daily

When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Christianity is 'A condition of complete simplify (Costing not less than everything.)' Four Quartets

Again, rich people are committed enough to do whatever it takes. Period.

Arquivo de riqueza no 3 As pessoas ricas assumem o compromisso de serem ricas. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre gostariam de ser ricas.

Wealth File #3 Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

Lo primero que hice fue comprometerme a lograr mi éxito y jugar a ganar. Juré que me centraría y no me plantearía siquiera abandonar este negocio hasta que fuese millonario.

I, ____________ [your name], do hereby commit to becoming a millionaire or more by ________ [date]." Tell your partner to say, "I believe in you." Then you say, "Thank you.

No luck - or anything else worthwhile - will come your way unless you take some form of action.

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)