Quotes About Commitment

How long do you think it will take them to get a transport here?" I asked. "Are you kidding?" Dad said. "If they didn't send for one the second I was done talking to them, I'll eat my hat." "You don't wear a hat," I said. "I will buy a hat and eat it, then," Dad said.

But there are deals, and there are promises. A deal you can make with anyone. A promise is something you make with someone you trust.

I'll do my best," Wilson said. "Your best got you stationed on the Clarke," Abumwe said. "Do better than that.

The three rules of writing: 1. It's Work. 2. It's Work. 3. Surprise! It's Work.

Or, to put it more succinctly: Writing professionally is a business. If you want to write professionally, you have to approach writing in a professional manner—which is to say, you have to approach it with the intent of actually making money doing it. This means: One: It takes work. Lots and lots and lots of work. Two: Sometimes, work sucks. Three: But you do it anyway because that's your job. The previous three rules, incidentally, work

Anything worth doing is worth doing at a fevered pitch.

Remind me again why I hired you." "I honestly don't know, Lady Nadashe. But inasmuch as you've already paid me, in advance, for roughly the next forty years—thank you for that, by the way, my wife loves the new dining room set probably more than she loves me—you might as well keep me.

Passion in this context refers to a sustained and deep commitment to achieving our full potential and greater capacity for self-expression in a domain that engages us on a personal level.

Because...because how can I expect the world to be a better place if I ain't gonna try real hard to make it better?

You are What you do When it counts - The Masao

You are What you do When it counts.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true.

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there

Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

Work is the only good thing.

um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar lá de manhã.

I know this … a man got to do what he got to do.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

I will. I surely will. Good-by, ma'am." As

Cal considered. "What did my father do to make her leave?" "He loved her with his whole mind and body. He gave her everything he could imagine.