Quotes About Commitment

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Understanding this

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Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?

Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.

Look for a partner you'll try to impress daily, and one who will try to impress you." Over the last couple decades, I've noticed that the best, most enduring partnerships in business (and in life) are among people who are constantly growing together. If the person you choose to depend on is constantly striving to learn and improve, you too will push yourself to new levels of achievement, and neither of you will feel like you have settled for someone you eventually outgrow.

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you're writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Commit, within financial reason, to action instead of theory. Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of academia. You can control most of the risks, and you can't imagine the rewards.

If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Narzu? sobie niemo?liwie krótkie terminy, by zmusi? si? do natychmiastowych dzia?a? i odrzucenia drobiazgów.

Si los mejores del mundo se parten el culo para hacerse fuertes, ¿por qué no lo haces tú?»

You Want to Be Taken Seriously? Then Take Things Seriously

Uno es recalcar que realizarás ochenta mil horas de trabajo a lo largo de tu vida.

Don't let someone knock you off course before you reach your destination. Trust the work. Always trust the work.

Over the last couple decades, I've noticed that the best, most enduring partnerships in business (and in life) are among people who are constantly growing together. If the person you choose to depend on is constantly striving to learn and improve, you too will push yourself to new levels of achievement, and neither of you will feel like you have settled for someone you eventually outgrow.

If you want to walk an hour a day, don't start with one hour. Choosing one hour is automatically building in the excuse of not having enough time. Commit to a fail-proof five minutes instead.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs Co-founder and former CEO of Apple

So I thought, 'I'm always on time, and I always show up to things, so why don't I do that for myself?' So I put a handwritten note next to my bed that said—and it has three exclamation points—'Mike!!! You have a meeting at Café Pedlar [where I was writing] at 7 a.m. with your mind,' which is so stupid. It's so embarrassing to admit, but it worked!

Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committed.

No me preocupará perder un amigo si tengo cien, pero si tengo dos amigos sí me preocuparé. No me preocupará perder mi trabajo si mi jefe número uno me despide porque tengo miles de jefes en periódicos de todas partes.

little part of me dies every time someone tells me they've taken a job as a "steppingstone" to something else, when they clearly aren't invested in it. You have one life to live. Time is valuable. If you're using steppingstones, you're also likely relying on someone else's path or definition of success. Make your own. What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?

And also, it's not about being good; it's about being great. Because what I find, the older I get, is that a lot of people are good, and a lot of people are smart, and a lot of people are clever. But not a lot of people give you their soul when they perform.