Quotes About Commitment

Kernel grins. "To the death, Master Grady?" "To the death, Master Fleck," I grin back. Then we both say together, "But not ours!

Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her.

Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20

You're joking, she said. That can't be true. It is, I vowed. Cross your heart? she asked. Cross my heart. Swear on your eyes? I swear on my eyes, I promised. May rats gnaw them out if I'm telling a lie.

As for advice—write as much as you can! Time's ticking, and if you don't throw everything you have into your stories today, you might find yourself on the wrong side of THE END tomorrow!

A true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)

It's like trying to hold on to a buttered pole, I grumbled. That's why you must grip harder. But it hurts. I'll cut my hands to shreds if I — Which would you rather? Vanez interrupted. Bloody hands or a stalagmite through your heart? That's a stupid question, I groaned.

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.

But besides I haven't the time: I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for." I kissed her.

Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there'd be no sense to it. That's the fix I am in. I don't know anything else, don't enjoy anything else, don't want to know or enjoy anything else. You can't weight that against any sum of money. Money's good stuff. I haven't anything against it.

Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.

You have to DO what you want to BE!

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.

I chose the members very carefully, based on their ability to correctly answer the following question: "Do you want to go to Orlando at your own expense and perform before Tupperware distributors?" (The correct answer was: "Yes.")

Don't let your mouth write cheques that your talent can't cash.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don't run the business, she would say. The business runs you.