Quotes About Commitment

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Paradoxically, there is no age group more enthusiastically reliable and committed by political deed to an activist if not fervent governing elite than the rising generation, and no age group more jeopardized by it.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band's twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the 'mature' thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

Guard your writing time--zealously. It's precious, even if it's only one or two hours a day.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

That's not gon fu." We stared at each other for a long time, then he raised on eybrow. "I could fix it, if you wanted." I must have nodded, because then he asked me if I could chi ku, eat bitter, the Chinese expression meaning to endure suffering. Lying, I said yes. Then he asked me if I was afraid of pain. Lying again, I said no. "You want?" he asked. "I want, " I said, and became his student.

Love your customers more than your product and your employees more than your customers and you'll be wildly successful.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

I swam my brains out.

Not-so-fun-fact: If the people who work most closely with your ministry end up wanting nothing to do with Jesus, it is no longer a ministry.

The difference between success and failure is effort.

Nothing in life worth doing is easy

You decide; then you act. You choose faith; then you walk through the door.

What you seek is what you will find, but only if you hunt it with all your heart and mind.