Quotes About Commitment

This pattern is what we observe in many difficult situations. For instance, if someone is very ill, everyone pulls together to help, but if the illness goes on for a year or two, people start pulling away because they're not up for that much.

We see ourselves in every episode; we realize that it's possible to keep going and never give up. We feel devotion toward the lineage of people who have worked so hard to make it easier for us.

Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself—making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Blood is just red sweat.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant