Quotes About Commitment

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

No!" Kinkajou cried. "We're eating together! You haven't even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!

Moon took up so much of his headspace. He caught himself watching her the way he used to watch Cobra, hoping for a glance that would hint she might love him back. He wanted to bring her new scrolls that would make her face light up. He wanted to make her soup when her visions gave her headaches and sing her silly songs to help her stop worrying. He wanted to fly beside her while she saved the world.

fighting and dying for her and

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

his best friends, wasn't that their ONE JOB?

can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

I wouldn't leave you, even for a superpower," Deathbringer said loyally. "I think that is your superpower," Glory said to him. "Extreme heroic idiocy.

All I can ask is that you try your best — and I know I don't even have to ask, because you're the kind of dragon who always does.

Of course she is — that's what she's been up to this whole time,

Another few months of training, maybe. I'm feeling really

But this will never happen again, he vowed. If I ever find someone else to care about, I will not let my mission come first. I will break any order. I'll endanger my own tribe if I have to. I will make up for this somehow. Someday.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

If you're not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human. They tend to be judgmental of others

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn't enough sometimes.

Great teams make clear and timely decisions and move forward with complete buy-in from every member of the team, even those who voted against the decision. They leave meetings confident that no one on the team is quietly harboring doubts about whether to support the actions agreed on.

A lack of healthy conflict is a problem because it ensures the third dysfunction of a team: lack of commitment. Without having aired their opinions in the course of passionate and open debate, team members rarely, if ever, buy in and commit to decisions, though they may feign agreement during meetings.

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

find someone who can demonstrate trust, engage in conflict, commit to group decisions, hold their peers accountable, and focus on the results of the team, not their own ego.

The most important part of the development process, and the part that is so often missing, is the leader's commitment to constantly "reminding" an employee if she is not yet doing what is needed. Without this, improvement will not occur.

I believe that teamwork is not a virtue, but rather a choice. It's a strategic decision and an intentional one, which means that it's not for everyone.

We need to hire people who are hungry. They go beyond what is required. Passionate about the work they're doing. Hungry.