Quotes About Commitment

7. If he keeps offering up excuses for why he can't meet your friends and family, he's sport fishing; if he agrees to go to the family barbecue or a social event where he will be introduced to family, friends, and co-workers, he might consider you a keeper.

8. If he cringes at the mere mention of children, he's sport fishing; if he's willing to meet your kids and shows up with gifts and can relate to them in a way that makes them comfortable with him, then he might consider you and your kids keepers.

9. If he does not have himself together financially, emotionally, and spiritually, he may be sport fishing; if he is capable of providing and protecting his potential family the way a real man should, then he might be searching for a keeper.

a man who loves you will be the man you need him to be if you have requirements—standards you set to make the relationship work the way you want it to.

1. You need to respect me. 2. You must put me and our kids after God and above all others. 3. Be clear to everyone involved in our lives that they will respect your relationship—and me.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies. If you choose to go over there, then you need to stay over there for the night.

she's making him aware of the standards he needs to live up to in order to stay in their relationship. Once it's said, the ball is in his court.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Sex must be important as it is so expensive.

I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the bad, because you let yourself be deceived into thinking he's going to stay that way...And I can't just walk away. Part of it is the desire to follow through on something that's become more important and meaningful in my life, and to satisfy the human instinct to help someone less fortunate. And maybe there's something more.

If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours,

In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.