Quotes About Commitment

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth. No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.

People who really believe that they can't afford the time to train don't have their priorities right. Given the benefits to your health, strength and life in general, you need to ask yourself whether you can afford not to train!

One cannot have love without ownership

Because Job loved and was honest with God, he was able to stay engaged in their relationship.

Choosing to please [God] more than anyone else guarantees that occasionally you will make other people unhappy, including family and friends.

As courageous Christian men, we're going to suffer. There's no way around it, because suffering is choosing difficulty when you could escape it. To be male is to stand in gaps you could flee, but if you did, others would be more than hurt. They would be harmed. And when we become Gap People, a goal of Promise Keepers, we move away from nice and into the good.

Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself, not at odds with it.

My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. I now placed a bean in each of the holes. I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. I opened my thermos and watered them all. And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.

I used to try to patch up the whole world. For thirty-six years I worked for different groups, promoting world government, setting up conferences on pacifism, raising money, stuffing envelopes. Not that I've given up the fight. I've just switched battlefields, from the entire planet to this corner of Cleveland. Sometimes I've actually had more effect on the world since I [have].

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."1

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

I'm asking you to tap into another set of feelings—understanding and compassion for people of color; outrage at injustice; courage, passion, and commitment to building a democratic, multicultural, and just society. Concentrate on what it is we can do, how we can make a difference.

will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

La fedeltà al passato non è un dato bensì un voto. Come tutti i voti può essere deluso, o tradito

When you get involved in something meaningful, you make your life count.

The most crucial prerequisite for any couple's longevity is to have both partners unequivocally accept, as a baseline, that the person they love is insane and has no morals.