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• You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

  Eric Shinseki

  Leader, Arrogance, Vacuums

  "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate". Book by Pat Williams (p.156), 2005.

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• I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

  Ed Koch

  President, States, Term

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• My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Determination, Profound

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• Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

  Sam Mendes

  Kings, Years, Focus

  "Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Degrees, Burning, Intimacy

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• I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

  Peter Zumthor

  Names, Together, Needs

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• No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Sacrifice, Order, Today

  "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Effort, Middle

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• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Jim Talent

  People, Liberty, This Generation

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• It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.

  Pope Francis

  Honesty, Integrity, Justice

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• The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

  Huey Newton

  Wise, Suicide, Moving

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.276, Penguin

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• There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

  H. Rap Brown

  Together, Consciousness, Social

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• To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

  Bell Hooks

  Communication, Care, Ingredients

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.5, HarperCollins

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• Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self, Discipline, Action

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

  "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Speaks on Governance, Elections and Other Issues". Interview with Abdoulaye W. Dukulé, www.theperspective.org. May 6, 2005.

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• A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

  James M. Paramore

  Temptation, Overcoming, Way

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• The fans - the Echelon - send in their pictures and they've been wrapped around my kit, as a kind of a thank you. The Echelon's commitment, loyalty, creativity and ability to express who they really are, consistently inspires me.

  Shannon Leto

  Loyalty, Creativity, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites.

  Suzy Menkes

  Real, Writing, Opportunity

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• I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

  Jeff Bezos

  Prepared, Decades

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• The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Gay, Loss, America

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

  Jacques Maritain

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

  Sarah Lewis

  Often Is, Views, Goal

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, People, Levels

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• Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud infrastructure.  We are building a fully-converged private platform around Essex, leveraging best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver a high-performance, flexible solution. This release marks a major a proof point of OpenStack’s commitment to open community development and pluggable APIs, which benefits the entire cloud ecosystem.

  Winston Damarillo

  Block, Believe, Clouds

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• America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

  Mark McKinnon

  Religious, America, Tolerance

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