Quotes About Commitment

L'amour est une élection, pas une sélection.

Your success is 100 percent your responsibility.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

When you find your purpose-- and you will find your purpose-- never let it go. Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

love is just an emotion that grows for whoever you chose!

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

There are no office hours for leaders.

Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Woodward was more competitive than anything else. Each had worried that the other might walk off with the remainder of the story by himself. If one had gone chasing after a lead at night or on a weekend, the other felt compelled to do the same. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

We seem to do our best work when a bit of passion is involve. It might be true that we can choose our feelings toward anything or one. Choosing passion could be a good choice.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or she does and just loves it in front of you.

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.