Commitment Quotes - Page 29

• Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Anger, Maturity, Needs

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.

  Misty Copeland

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving Up, Generosity, Hysterical

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 44, 1973.

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, What Matters, Years

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• In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

  George W. Bush

  Running, War, Cutting

  George W. Bush's speech at Island Grove Regional Park Events Center in Greeley, Colorado, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 25, 2004.

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• Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Play, Vigor, Impossible

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

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• Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.

  Robert Holden

  Fun, Passion, Hobbies

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• Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Technology, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Democrats' Radio Response". www.foxnews.com. October 08, 2005.

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Two, Effort, Majority

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• Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

  Imre Lakatos

  Regret, Criticism, Weakness

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• I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

  Richard Lugar

  Country, Thinking, White

  "GOP looks to Frist to repair Lott damage". www.cnn.com. December 22, 2002.

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• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Powerful, Order, Sailing

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• I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  People, Humanity, World

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

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• I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

  Russell Simmons

  Careers, Common Purpose, People

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• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Thinking, Space, Atmosphere

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• There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

  Warren Beatty

  Real, People, Passionate

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• Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Teach, Findings

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.

  Kevin Cook

  Communication, Community, Bars

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• When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Struggle, Fall, People

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• The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Essentials, Ingredients, Affection

  Robert A. Johnson (1984). “The Psychology of Romantic Love”

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• A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

  Mary E. Hunt

  Heart, Justice, Demand

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• [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.

  Richard Brown

  Thinking, Survivor, Law Enforcement

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• It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Time, Future

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• I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

  William Morris

  Real, Thinking, Vision

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