Quotes About Commitment

The endowment effect has obvious applications to quitting behavior. Selling something you own is the equivalent of quitting; you are quitting your ownership. Not selling something you own is a form of persistence. When you are deciding whether to sell your wine, or your car, or your house, you are choosing whether or not to persist in owning those things.

As you build things, whether they're train tracks, or bookshelves, or relationships, or essays that you've written for classes, the endowment effect gaffs the scale even more, further escalating our commitment to failing causes.

Teller realizes that when you're building pedestals, you are also accumulating sunk costs that make it hard to quit even as you find out that you may not be able to train the monkey to juggle those torches.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

Essentially, kill criteria create a precommitment contract to quit.

quoting an August 2005 speech by then president George W. Bush justifying staying the course in Iraq by saying, "We owe [the two thousand soldiers who had already died] something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."); Van Putten, Zeelenberg, and Van Dijk, "Who Throws Good Money after Bad?," 2010, 33 ("one of the most important reasons to continue the way in Iraq was to prevent acknowledging that soldiers who fell in battle died in vain").

If our goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months, we can plan how to achieve that by imagining it's six months from now and we've lost the weight. What are the things we did to lose the weight? How did we avoid junk food? How did we increase the amount of exercise we were doing? How did we stick to the regimen?

Elle servait des pommes de terre et du lait du matin au soir pour que je sois assise dans un amphi à écouter parler de Platon

Ce sera dur. » Au début, je ne comprends pas bien mais il ajoute : « J'espère que pour toi aussi ce sera dur. » Voilà sa façon de dire qu'il tient à moi.

The more we allow one kind of energy, the more the other can come through. Once a commitment is made, it is easier to allow a partner their solitude or freedom. Once we know our freedom is respected, we can more easily make a commitment. Conversely, the more a partner insists on one aspect, the more his lover will yearn for its opposite. Dynamic balance is a dance between attachment and freedom.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

Good relationships don't just happen; they take time, patience and two people who truly want to work to be together.

I've fallen in love many times . . . always with you.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes a lot to be a daddy.

If I could choose between loving you and breathing I would use my last breathe to say I love you.

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

I may not be the strongest. I may not be the fastest. But I'll be damned if I'm not trying my hardest.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.