Commit Quotes - Page 9

• Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

  Brian Tracy

  Fields, Being The Best, What You Love

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 05, 2014

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Directors, Want, Sin

  21 Copy quote

• The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

  Steven Pressfield

  Buckets, Crabs, Leap

  6 Copy quote

• There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Atrocities, Littles

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

  11 Copy quote

• I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

  Og Mandino

  Crime, Lows, Terrible

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

  Martin Gardner

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

  Thomas Nagel

  Imagination, Murder, Entitled

  Thomas Nagel (2004). “Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays”, p.7, Oxford University Press

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  Design, May, Sin

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

  Jesse Ventura

  Crime, Free Society

  4 Copy quote

• You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

  Ayrton Senna

  Giving, Levels, Compromise

  130 Copy quote

• I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

  Pope John Paul II

  Church, Energy, Moments

  Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reading, Mind, Paper

  4 Copy quote

• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

  19 Copy quote

• Boys will be boys... They commit mistakes.

  Mulayam Singh Yadav

  Mistake, Boys

  14 Copy quote

• Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

  Bill Murray

  Hands, Pockets, Able

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Children, Abuse, Politics

  4 Copy quote

• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Honesty, Men, Down And

  11 Copy quote

• Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

  Warren Berger

  Eye, Giving, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Ignorant, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1324, Manonmani Publishers

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

  W. H. Auden

  Math, Tests, Answers

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.

  Jean Genet

  Blessed, Evil, Dungeons

  "The Balcony".

  5 Copy quote

  Show source