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Author:Stephen Lang

“It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.”

People Needs Wells States Enough Ability United United States Clear Figures Capable Commitment Impact Iraq

Author:John McCain

“I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.”

People Thinking Knows Should Strong Influence Commitment Troops Deployment American Troops

Author:John McCain

“Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.”

Ifs Should Believe Able Results Successful Our Lives Balance Commitment Dues Believe In God Fear Of Failure God Is In Control Lack Of Faith Commitment In Business

Author:Larry Burkett

“If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.”

Ifs Want Real Victory Commitment Absolutes Insight Boat Islands Real Victory

Author:Tony Robbins

“The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.”

People Matter Helping Light Community Principles Commitment Criticism Importance Mark Criticize Boost Criticizing Others

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.”

Way Causes Walks Huge Habit Conversation Commitment Lifestyle Our Thoughts

Author:Joyce Meyer

“There is no abiding success without commitment.”

Commitment Abiding Commitment In Business No Commitment Abiding Faith Fear Of Commitment

Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need to remain committed to a vision long enough to see it vome to fruition.”

Way Needs Long Ideas Enough Lines Vision Commitment Bottom Committed Bottom Line Nurturing Fruition

Author:Caroline Myss

“Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.”

“Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.”

Knows Mind Doe Process Truth Is Commitment Difficulty Sufficient

Book:Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Source: Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

“The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.”

“Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.”

Way Made Shows Father Clear Expression Conversation Commitment Performances Lips Made It Prophet Proportion Heavenly Tire Heavenly Father Lip Service Expressions Of Love

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.”

Believe Doe I Believe Religious Commitment Preference

Author:Nia Long

“When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.”

People War Reality Leader Commitment Nine Civil War Fifty Memorial Monument Tenacity Confederate Montgomery

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.”

People Way Want Left Commitment Fundamentals Tone Etc Righteousness Mainstream

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.”

“I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.”

Thinking Way Empathy Commitment Ideology Usefulness Deficiency Devalue

Author:Jim Shepard

“The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.”

Wells Design Commitment Passionate Macs

Author:Steve Jobs

“Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.”

Needs Writing Years Ideas Stories Pleasure Secret Novel Commitment Short Story Good Ideas Scratches

Author:Debra Dean

“It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.”

Moments Problem Kids Millions Proud Activity Commitment Trajectory Proud Moments

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.”

Player Musician Commitment Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Gail Zappa

“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.”

Thinking Persons Made Moving Song White Class Middle Grew Grew Up Commitment Privilege Nostalgia Despite Relate Middle Class Ache Keep Moving Upper Middle Class

Author:Erin McKeown

“We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.”

Needs Commitment Strategy Isis

Author:Hillary Clinton

“One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.”

Matter Guy Views Situation One Thing Commitment No Matter What Odds Good Guy Against All Odds

Author:Molly Crabapple

“These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.”

World Needs Humanity Five Four Commitment Trade Species Treasure Lions Magnificent Elephants Apes Leopards Rhinos Cheetahs

Author:Patrick Bergin

“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.”

“You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.”

World Country Might School Moving Realizing Commitment Genre

Author:John D'Agata

“I have great respect for Senator [Bernie] Sanders's commitment to try to restore Glass-Steagall. But I do not believe that that is enough. And in fact, I don't believe it really addresses a lot of the biggest issues we have.”

Trying Believe Enough Facts Issues Commitment Don't Believe Glasses Addresses Senators Great Respect

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and pursuing a stable relationship with their neighbors. Instead, we've seen a lot of provocations and a flouting of international norms and obligations.”

Commitment International Neighbor Obligation Welcome Stable Norm North Korea Korean Provocation North Korean Peninsulas

Author:Josh Earnest

“We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."”

Energy Company Ready Majors Commitment Innovation Significant Hey Investors Breakthrough Coalitions Announcements

Author:Bill Gates

“Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.”

Needs Mean Ends Self Together Lasts Values Trump Commitment Recognition The End Of The Day Righteous Justification Hostility Self Righteous Shared Values

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I'd have a few on and off, but the commitment was always more on the girls' part than on mine, to be perfectly honest. So, I met a girl in Tokyo, on my Japanese tour, with whom I've been living ever since, very happily. Her name is Suchi.”

Girl Names Honest Mines Mets Commitment And Off Tokyo

Author:Iggy Pop

“Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.”

Circumstances Benefits Commitment Organization Medical Obligation Instance Employee Shed Remorse Hesitation Pension

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.”

Want Stuff Situation Support Commitment Rude

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of nature, we will need to appeal to something like natural kinds. This is, to be sure, a metaphysical commitment, but it is a metaphysical commitment that is implicit in science, as I see it.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Law Natural Successful Possibility Commitment Appeals Make Sense Metaphysical Laws Of Nature Implicit Inference

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.”

Giving Mean Different Problem Certain Effects Particular Commitment Red Rose Interpretation Propositions Different Interpretations Roses Are Red

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.”

Commitment Periphery

Author:George Meyer

“George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.”

Wells Book Minutes Judging Commitment Passionate Aids Concerts Typical Intervals Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Elton John

“Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.”

Knows Writing Important Fall Commitment Falling In Love

Author:Isabel Allende

“When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."”

Men Looks Eye Jobs Stuff Poor Study Issues Ethics Commitment I Realized Intimacy Related Work Ethic Good Job Fear Of Commitment Fatherlessness

Author:Donald Miller

“In the past I faced assassination attempts. I faced harassment, intimidation and prison due to my bold stand on this issue. But these difficult challenges strengthened my faith; strengthened my belief; and strengthened my commitment and devotion to this cause.”

Past Belief Causes Difficult Challenges Issues Commitment Prison Dues Devotion Assassination Harassment Intimidation Difficult Challenges

Author:Shahbaz Bhatti

“We've done a lot of studies to see when they do happen, why, and I mean there's a variety of reasons. But one, it starts with a commitment where they decide this is going to be who we are. Maybe it's out of their faith, a new way of looking at their faith, that we must be integrated across race.”

Way Mean Reason Done Happens Race Study Commitment Variety Who We Are New Ways Integrated

Author:Michael Emerson

“Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.”

Knows Kind Mean Different Feelings Song Stuff Style Like You Commitment Combination Genesis

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.”

Thinking Tvs Commitment

Author:Juno Temple

“That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.”

Way Art Kids Wonderful Battle Skills Commitment Dedication Jersey

Author:Doseone

“It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.”

“Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.”

Mean Persons Certain Prayer Praying Commitment Operations

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.”

People Thinking Space Successful Fashion Industry Commitment Photographer Aspiration Being Successful

Author:C. J. Wilson

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