Quotes About Commitment

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

There is no evolution without skin in the game.

just to show that you can walk the walk.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

commitment and signaling

those who have more than their skin in the game. They have their soul in the game.

You always control what you do; so make this your end.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Lovers of paychecks are lazy…but they would never let you down at times like these.

dependability is a driver behind many transactions.

Never buy when you can rent the three Fs

The longer the person stays with a company, the more emotional investment they will have in staying

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

Love without sacrifice is theft (Procrustes).

his presence is needed at every performance

Les générosites en amour se payent cher.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Every time I want to give up on him, there's always something inside telling me to just give it time.

I'm going to be a star some day, she announced as though daring him to contradict her. I'm sure you... It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want. It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel, but... If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams.

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.