Quotes About Commitment

The thing is, even if you start out with a firm resolve and a clear intention, your journal will die a slow death if you write in it only when the spirit moves you.

As Barbara Kingsolver said, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Para que una persona mereciera el título de "padre" era necesario mucho más que llevar a un niño en el vientre y parirlo

Happy people got something to fight for.

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

We might be mad or stupid, but at least we were serious.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away.

Los nuevos soldados estarán en general más deseosos de luchar y morir por sus causas. Rara vez llevarán uniformes y puede resultar difícil distinguirlos de la población general. También estarán muy lejos de sentirse coartados por las convenciones y más probablemente procurarán buscar medios innovadores para conseguir sus objetivos.

Los planes eran «planes calladamente madurados durante largos períodos de tiempo. Sin embargo, una vez que había tomado una decisión, ya no se preocupaba con dudas y perseguía su objetivo con una fe inquebrantable».

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. –

So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We've settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy," where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped.

Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

They would see it through together, the two of them, her strength added to his. The aggregate—by the peculiar alchemy of their love—was greater than the sum of the parts.

tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

But I remember a scene where someone sneaks out into the woods to meet someone. ... And that's where it came from. Everything else is there to turn it from an image into a story. ... That image was strong enough for me to never give up on it, no matter what my editors and agents thought.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.