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“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.”

“It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.”

Way Mean Doe Reality Our Lives Impossible Commitment Conventions Schemes

Author:David E. Cooper

“The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.”

People World Should Humans Purpose Values Belief Commitment Conventions Fidelity Stance Beliefs And Values

Author:David E. Cooper

“If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Political Individual Situation Involved Demand Commitment

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But who is holding them to account? Our mission is to make it known that these conventions are good tools for civil society to hold their local authority, their government and businesses accountable.”

“I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.”

Thinking World Writing Mean Art Desire Social Difficult Economic Commitment Core Enormous Crafts Gaps

Author:Adrienne Rich

“In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.”

Light Turns Water Company Commitment Obstacles Partners Cash Take Time Infrastructure It Takes Time

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.”

Looks Social Worst Racism Commitment Violent Oppression Demon

Author:Jordan Peele

“My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.”

Country America Childhood Development Commitment Program Significant Latin Latin America Early Childhood

Author:Shakira

“Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.”

World Littles Real Dream Vision Fronts Perception Commitment Real World Waking Tied

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.”

Thinking Humans May I Can Two Political Values Spirituality Energy Can Do Religious Struggle Fields Emotional Commitment Harmony Profession My Time Human Values

Author:Dalai Lama

“That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all of our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

“I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.”

Thinking Has Beens Real Facts Care Taken Happened Office Commitment Europe Tragedy Crisis Greek Combat Recalls Savages Bureaucracy Could Have Been Greece Savagery Referendums Brussels

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not link easily to, say, economic rights, and it often looks like it's opposed to them. The attempt to bring these together has yet to be done in a truly effective way, and I think it can be.”

People Thinking Way Looks Doe Important Done Together Form Rights Economic Movement Particular Gay Commitment Links Gay Rights

Author:Noam Chomsky

“America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.”

America Religious Degrees Commitment Iran Fanatics Fundamentalist

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.”

Ifs Way Firsts Made Bigs Wanted Opportunity Crazy College Commitment Flight Fighter Planes Engines Pilots Airplane Accustomed License Hooked Fighter Pilot

Author:Jessica Cox

“It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.”

People Kind Reason Done Culture Left Interesting Democracy Rights Trouble Dangerous Periods Intellectual Commitment Sick Harm Civilized 1960s Obedient Times Of Trouble

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."”

Enough Bigs Next Party Brain Generations Groups Fields Commitment Organization Reach Out Competing Next Generation Allegiance Public Service

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.”

Mean Promise Commitment Redemption Covenant God's Love

Author:Scot McKnight

“Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.”

People Needs Ideas Belief Commitment Secular

Author:Ross Douthat

“If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.”

“We have management questions. On increasing the basic state pension in line with earnings, because we have made a clear promise and said that the increase in the pension age has to be brought forward, that is an affordable and deliverable commitment from the Conservative Party.”

Made Said States Age Lines Party Clear Promise Commitment Increase Management Conservative Earning Affordable Pension Conservative Party

Author:George Osborne

“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”

“I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.”

Thinking Trying Answers Deals Issues Reader Commitment Letters Hopeful Agriculture Conservation

Author:Wendell Berry

“Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.”

Needs Together Commitment Fundamentals Tied Our Relationship Spouse Analogies Adjusting Continuous Learning One For Me

Author:Wendell Berry

“Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.”

Men Care Together Religious Teaching Commitment Tools Destroyed Interpretation Meant To Be Nonviolence Widows Orphan Coming Together Widows And Orphans Were Not Meant To Be

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.”

People Values Religious Focus Taught Commitment Like Me Marine Marine Corps Value Systems

Author:Bob Lutz

“Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.”

Ifs Stills Effort Failing Commitment Bounds Commit

Author:Dario Robleto

“There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.”

Thinking Trying Doubt Wall Commitment Ran Rhetoric

Author:Raul Grijalva

“I learned, having played Marcia Clark, what the value of that is in your life because it can affect everything, every choice you make, the way you deal with a stranger on the street, or your best friend or lover. It's a powerful thing to know yourself and to have the commitment and the courage to let that be your guide.”

Values Choices Powerful Lovers Commitment Stranger Know Yourself Your Best Friend

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.”

Thinking Kind Important Values Virtue Commitment Perseverance Loyalty Human Values

Author:John Kleinig

“Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so on. But as the Aristotelians would put it, its expression requires phronesis - wisdom not to allow it to compromise other important virtues ,there is something to the ancient doctrine of the unity of the virtues. I believe that is true of all virtues, but especially of the executive virtues - such as industriousness, sincerity, conscientiousness, and courage - which may become detached from substantive goods.”

Believe Important I Believe Virtue Commitment Relation Unity Ancient Loyalty Compromise Sincerity

Author:John Kleinig

“Fasting is required, staying away from fighting and arguing and bombing of masjids is still going on. Hatred is still manifested between Sunni and Shi'a, I don't know whether there is deepening of commitment to Ramadan in that part of the world.”

World Fighting Commitment Hatred Arguing

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“While pursuing those relations with Russia, which are important - Russia is an important country - it is also important to stand by your friends and allies in Europe, defend your treaty commitment to NATO allies, stand by the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It's not whether we pursue relations with Russia when we need to, but what we're willing to give them in order to have that very, very good relationship that Donald Trump seems to be talking about.”

Giving Important Country Integrity Commitment Relation Very Good Sovereignty Nato Good Relationship

Author:Philip Gordon

“No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.”

World Commitment Nuclear Weapons

Author:Barack Obama

“I have no doubt that the U.S., even under Trump, will stick to the mutual defense commitment in the NATO treaty in the event of an emergency. Trump described NATO as being obsolete during his election campaign, but he made clear afterward that he considers the alliance to be an indispensable necessity.”

Doubt Commitment Election Mutual Nato

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“I think the Russians need to think more carefully about the commitment they made under the chemical weapons agreements to be the guarantor that these weapons would be seized, they would be removed, they would be destroyed. And since they are Bashar al-Assad's ally, they would have the closest insight as to the compliance.”

Thinking Commitment Insight

Author:Rex W. Tillerson

“The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses the reality of the presence of God as the key to biblical understanding.”

Reality Desire Understanding Religious Commitment Independent Biblical Presence Of God Scholarly

Author:Vern Poythress

“My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.”

People Giving Heart Kind Long Reason Care Son Healthy Commitment Surgeons

Author:Atul Gawande

“Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.”

Children Poor Democracy Commitment Compromise Legacy

Author:Narendra Modi

“The biggest thing is that the people of the country have faith. That trust should never break. The public should have faith that this is the government they elected, and it's trying to work for their welfare with honesty and commitment. That's the biggest thing. If I can win the confidence of the people of India - not from my speeches - but by actions, then the power of 1.25 billion Indians will come together to take the country forward.”

People Trying Country Action Together Winning Break Honesty Commitment Welfare Have Faith

Author:Narendra Modi

“Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.”

Suffering Justice Commitment Injustice Vulnerable Advocacy

Author:Carolyn Custis James

“Our allies expect not only a commitment to democratic values from us, leadership on those values, including respect and equality and - but they also expect stability. They expect knowing that the president of the United States is not set off by petty arguments and easily slings invective. That leads you down a really, really bad path.”

Values President Path Commitment Argument Democratic Stability

Author:Bridget Johnson

“I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of the spending commitments that Obama's administration wants to make. Vast expansion in terms of the deficit, but it also says a lot about what they intend for the role of government in the society.”

Term Situation Worry Commitment Limitation

Author:Dick Cheney

“330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear the bad mouthing, the bad mouthing that comes from people that seize upon tragedy in the wake of police action shootings as - as a reason to - to use a broad brush to accuse law enforcement of - of implicit bias or institutional racism. And that really has got to stop.”

People Reason Action Racism Commitment Tragedy Police Bias Law Enforcement Law And Order

Author:Mike Pence

“One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in.”

Action Motivation Choices Religious Justice Support Conscience Commitment Mercy Uplifting

Author:Noam Chomsky

“People say to me all the time, "Oh, you do such a good job unifying the House Democrats." I say, "I don't. Our values unify us. We are unified with our commitment to America's working families about job creation, about budget policies that invest in the future, good-paying jobs."”

People Values House Policy Creation Commitment Democrat Good Job

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I got elected on a commitment to Canadians that I was going to make growth work for everyone. I was going to focus on the middle class and those working hard to join it. I was going to make sure that the people who felt that the growth in the economy had left them behind would be included. That's similar to the promise that got Trump elected. Now, our approaches to the same problems are somewhat different. But in my conversations with him, we've very much been able to agree that we want to help the citizens of our countries in tangible ways.”

People Different Country Helping Problem Growth Economy Focus Promise Commitment Agree Middle Class

Author:Justin Trudeau

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

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