Quotes About Commitment

those familiar with the rigors of such activities, the limit expands to something like four hours, but rarely more.

If you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. Having

Each of the habits describes an ongoing behavior rule. They're not dedicated to a particular objective, but instead are designed to maintain a background commitment to regular high-quality leisure in the planner's life.

Knuth deploys what I call the monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. Practitioners of the monastic philosophy tend to have a well-defined and highly valued professional goal that they're pursuing, and the bulk of their professional success comes from doing this one thing exceptionally well.

Conclusion #1: Career Passions Are Rare

As Derek explained to me, he started by pursuing music at night and on the weekend. "I didn't quit my day job until I was making more money with my music.

everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

we cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.

What would I do differently if I could do it all over again? I would put more emphasis on being a better husband and father. To the church or the university I would whip out a lot more noes, and a lot more yesses to my family. I would eradicate almost all of the 'Daddy's-too-busies,' and the 'later, darlings,' from my vocabulary.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

There are two things in the world you must never give up on...And those two things are yourself and love.

I love you, Papa," I said. "And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done." "I will love you as long as I draw breath," I replied. "And the moment I stop breathing, I will find you. Wherever you are.

I love you, Papa," I said. "And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done.

So I chose one, and Harry kept the other... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this. We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath.

It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.

True love never dies.

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.

We know plenty of Ethiopians in London who do not even furnish their flats. What possessions they acquire sit in their cardboard boxes ready for transport. The tower of boxes holding televisions, toaster ovens, microwaves, electric heaters teeters to the left of the door, ready to be shipped at a moment's notice. They commit to nothing. They float on the myth of return.

Les hommes libres peuvent partir, et quelquefois ils restent. Voilà la plus belle preuve d'amour: prendre la liberté de rester alors qu'on pourrait s'en aller.