Quotes About Commitment

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

A standard day usually starts very early - 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

If you're in a city where there's no clear startup community, the goal is not raise a bunch of money to fund a nonprofit; the goal is not get your government involved. The goal is start finding the other entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to being in your city over the next 20 years.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.

I don't care if I starve.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.