“It's Richard Kelly's brilliance, because he led me to Donnie Darko performance. He wanted sincerity, he didn't want it to be one color, and he made me go vulnerable, and I think that's why it works. When you can get all those different colors and levels in one line. Time Out New York voted it "Best Line Of The Year" - which is crazy, because how many words is it? "Sometimes. I. Doubt. Your. Commitment. To. Sparkle. Motion." Eight words. It's crazy.” ThinkingDifferentSometimesDoubtCrazyCommitmentVulnerableSincerityBrillianceSparkleOne Line Author:Beth Grant
“I have felt for a long time that the pathway to solving the climate crisis is through the building of a massive grassroots army of men and women who will go out there and win the conversation on climate, and persuade businesses, and universities, and towns to switch to renewable energy and to reduce emissions. And the big change from ten years ago is that people are way more receptive, not only to the message that we have to act, not only to the message that now we can act, we have the solutions now - that's the biggest change - but also willing to make a commitment that we will act.” PeopleMenLongWinningEnergyBuildingSolutionsMen And WomenCommitmentArmyCrisisRenewable Energy Author:Al Gore
“I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.” BelieveWarSimplePartyAcceptingMagicPossibilityHumilitySucceedSolutionsCommitmentPerseveranceCompromiseInevitability Author:Oscar Arias
“I would distinguish between Donald Trump and the United States of America. Although he is president, he does not speak for the country on the climate change, and that was vividly illustrated in the aftermath of his speech pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement. Almost immediately, not only did the rest of the world double down on its commitments, but also here in this country, governors, mayors, business leaders, they said, we're still in the Paris Agreement, and they're doubling down. A lot of cities have now made a decision to go 100% renewable energy.” WorldCountryEnergySpeakPresidentDecisionLeaderCommitmentClimate ChangeRenewable Energy Author:Al Gore
“Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.” GivingDisciplineCommitmentConsiderationConsistencyStewardship Author:Randy Alcorn
“The system we have is one that protects my rights under a president I don`t approve. That tomorrow we`ll do the same for you. And what people have in common is their commitment to those shared rules. And if you have someone who was a challenger to the shared rules, that`s unacceptable. And we`ve never seen that before. Not in a long, long time but we see it now.” PeopleLongPresidentCommonTomorrowProtectCommitment Author:David Frum
“We are in the top five restaurants in New York. Daniel is about luxury. It's a luxury where when somebody has never come they maybe expect to be intimidated, but once they have the experience I think they feel this is a welcoming, fun and great experience to have. The menu, the price point, the level of service, and class we offer to people... I think it's incredible. Not every restaurant can be like that - it's a commitment, in terms of dedication to excellence.” PeopleThinkingFunTermCommitmentExcellenceIncrediblesWelcomeDedicationIntimidated Author:Daniel Boulud
“You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh. I'm just gonna deliver scripts or fly out, like, once, then fly back." You have to make a full commitment. You have to actually get on a plane, come to L.A., rent a place, and live there. And that's how you forge your career. Not just sort of haphazardly. Once you've got a few hits under your belt, assuming you do, then go back and move away and correspond with the studio.” PeopleWritingMovingCommitmentDirectAssuming Author:Shane Black
“When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I need to find an author. "I" can also be polyphonic, fictional, inhabited by a multitude of characters, be right or wrong or at fault or corrupted. But that's more "the self" than "me, me, me." It's problematic. There are times to say "we."” CharacterCommitment Author:Pierre Huyghe
“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” LoveChildrenAgeHumanityWifeSocietyTaughtHusbandCommitmentWelfareStabilityHusband And WifeHusband Wife Author:Jack Kingston
“I'm emotionally invested in every movie that I do, period, because you've got to make that commitment. You're spending a year, 18 months of your life doing it. I'm invested in all those kinds of pieces. Most of the films I've had in my career have never tested well. I got lucky that sometimes I got supported by studios - or, at least if not supported, tolerated.” KindSometimesFilmLuckyCommitment Author:Barry Levinson
“I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.” EnergyHonestyDramaCommitmentSincerity Author:David Gordon Green
“Throughout my career, I had a lot of mentors, and I just adopted them. What I found is that, especially if you're young, when you go up to people and say, 'Would you mind being my mentor?,' their eyes widen. They literally step back. What they're thinking about is the commitment and time involved if they say yes. And time is something they don't have. So I would not ask them to be my mentor, but I would just start treating them like it. And that worked very well for me.” PeopleThinkingMindEyeCommitmentMentorAdopted Author:Shellye Archambeau
“Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups. They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.” ActionAttitudeCommitmentAbstractCollaboration Author:Alan Briskin
“I put my children first, but I always keep my obligations or my commitments. You really have to do some internal work to know yourself, know what you're capable of. See how many meetings you can take a day or how much work you can get through in a day. Give it lots of proper time and respect, but also give yourself the respect of having your downtime, whether that means yoga, pilates, a meditation class, or a cooking class.” GivingMeanChildrenMeditationCapableYogaCommitmentCookingMeetingsObligationMy ChildrenKnow Yourself Author:Rachel Roy
“I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDifferentDesireValuesIndividualSacrificeSecurityPoetUniqueCommitmentPhilosopherCourageous Author:Marc Maron
“The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.” PeopleThinkingCultureEnjoyQualitySuccessfulCommitmentCommittedSuccessful People Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that.” BelieveChildrenTogetherI BelieveMarriedCommitmentBeing MarriedGrowing OldRaising Children Author:Laura Wasser
“You live with someone, you make a commitment to honor them, respect them, and love them, and if you're going to have children, then you make a commitment to raise those children together. Why does the state have to get involved with that?” ChildrenTogetherHonorCommitmentGet Involved Author:Laura Wasser
“I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. I find it so interesting that so many people rush into the commitment of marriage, which is a legal contract, without knowing anything about what the expectations of the other person are, and they've not explained or articulated their expectations of the other person.” PeopleThinkingImportantInterestingExpectationsCommitment Author:Laura Wasser
“I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day.” SchoolNightGoalHigh SchoolCommitmentMurderGet AwayCrowJim Crow Author:Shirley Sherrod
“I love helping other people. When I made a commitment to stay in the South, to work for change, it meant devoting my life to working for and helping others. I feel good when I know that I've saved someone's farm, or helped a family to get a home or access to credit. Or when I can get young people to see that there's more to life than just trying to make the biggest dollar for yourself.” PeopleTryingHelpingHomeCommitmentHelping OthersFeel GoodI Feel Good Author:Shirley Sherrod
“When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.” TryingTodayCommitmentAgingYoung Women Author:Shirley Sherrod
“Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it if one expects to do anything more than produce a book or a story that is exactly as one wants it to be.” BookArtistPassionAttentionCommitmentArtistic Author:Chris Ware
“The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened at Abu Ghraib exposes our departure from this long-term commitment. It does not, however, excuse the atrocities carried about by Saddam Hussein and others.” CommitmentShiningHuman RightsExcuse Author:Rory Kennedy
“We express America's values from the State Department. We represent the American people. We represent America's values, our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment to people the world over. And that message has never changed.” PeopleWorldValuesChangedEqualCommitmentNever Change Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.” BelieveValuesDoubtCommitmentAmerican Government Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“There is no place for fear. Stay informed, but also be smart enough to decipher what is noise and what is real. Always remembering that love can cast out all hate. I have made a commitment to teach my son love, self-respect, the way of the world and boundaries.” WorldRealEnoughRememberHateTeachSonSelf LoveSmartCommitmentBoundariesMy SonBeing Smart Author:Kelly Rowland
“Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens up the playbook hugely. I have worked with artists I really love, but they may have some small aspect that they hate drawing, or that they don't excel at, and that effectively takes that option off the table.” ArtistHateCommitment Author:Gail Simone
“My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.” CommitmentAfghanistanLiteracy Author:Greg Mortenson
“Anybody who tells you that being married and having kids is a walk in the park - it's a beautiful thing. It's the best thing I've ever done in my life - but it's definitely work. You have to work at it like you do anything else you care about in life. It takes commitment and it takes work, and that's all part of it, but in the end there's nothing more worthwhile than working on your family. It's just the best thing in the world.” WorldDoneCareKidsBeautifulLike YouMarriedCommitmentOur FamilyBeautiful ThingsBeing MarriedHaving Kids Author:Nick Lachey
“You must set up measurement of results and celebrate small victories as you go along. I have observed that any creativity initiative gets about an eighteen-month grace period. If there aren't any tangible results in a year and a half, despite the strongest commitment, someone in the organization is going to start questioning the whole program.” CreativityGraceVictoryCommitmentProgramCelebrateQuestioningInitiative Author:Michael Ray
“Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm the one you stopped your nomadic life for." It's one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it's another thing altogether when you stop having sex with others when you marry. So the marital commitment becomes, "I must be really special. With me, you no longer think you can find better next door." Romantic consumerism is thinking you can't find better, younger or newer.” ThinkingEconomySpecialCommitmentFirst TimeConsumerismNarcissistic Author:Esther Perel
“The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my energy, my arm, my eyes, my sense of space and form and time. It's a wonderful realm for me. I never leave it.” EyeEnergyAbilityWonderfulDisciplineCommitmentPainterComposition Author:Carolee Schneemann
“It's been proven that the thoughts we choose have everything to do with our emotions. I can tell you that a commitment to feeling good can take away a stomach ache, fear, depression, sadness, anxiety - you name it. Any stress signal is a way of alerting you to say the five magic words: I want to feel good. This is your intention to be tranquil and stress free - and it's a way of connecting to spirit.” FeelingsSpiritEmotionMagicSadnessAnxietyCommitmentStressIntentionFeel GoodTranquil Author:Wayne Dyer
“That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on the book side and especially on the magazine side, I've had editors that I did not get the same feeling from. That feeling of, "This is something I believe in, I don't care how long, I'm going to publish it" - that kind of passion and commitment means a lot to you.” BelieveKindMeanLongBookFeelingsCarePassionI BelieveCommitmentPublishingPublish Author:Clancy Martin
“I think one of the great strengths of Americans United is that it has such diversity. That it has not only people who have no religious belief, but lots of people who do and who take that belief very seriously. And I think that provides us with a great opportunity to talk about the separation of church and state. There are plenty of other groups, and some of them are quite good at what they do, but they also have an agenda of non-theism, but we don't have, you might say, a theology. We just have a commitment to the Constitution.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityBeliefChurchReligiousDiversityCommitmentConstitutionSeparationTheologyPlentyChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious BeliefGreat Opportunity Author:Barry W. Lynn
“America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.” PeopleBelieveHelpingDeserveCommitment Author:George W. Bush
“We've got to have all those tools. The Patriot Act tearing down those walls between intel and law enforcement are a necessary part of protecting the country. But, in the long term, the only way to defeat this terrorist bunch is through the spread of liberty and freedom. And that's a big challenge. I understand it's a challenge. It requires commitment and patience and persistence.” LongCountryTermChallengesLibertyWallCommitmentDefeatSpreadTerroristPersistenceLong TermPatriotLaw EnforcementPatriot Act Author:George W. Bush
“There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.” ReasonMotherFatherLike YouCommitmentScaredAdventurousMother And Father Author:David Bowie
“The current public television and radio system in the United States, while it's better than nothing, that's about the best you can say about it. It's nowhere near the standard it needs to be for our society, and we've got to make a commitment to rethink the system altogether. You know, just giving more money to what exists on PBS now would be not great; we've got to have a new vision of PBS.” GivingVisionCommitment Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“The American financial and military commitment really only kicks in with Korea. Not that Korea was the real game for the Americans; their real fear was that this was just the prelude to a second Korea in Germany. We now know from the Soviet archives that the last thing Stalin was going to do was start a war in Central Europe. The Americans didn't know that, and it was the fear that he might which transformed NATO from a sort of shell game into a real military alliance. That total commitment basically transformed the Marshal Plan into military aid.” WarRealMilitaryCommitmentFinancialAidsSovietNato Author:Tony Judt
“I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine my work with this commitment to helping dementia? One of the myths is that it's an older person's disease. We're seeing early onset dementia among people at 45. It's the disease of everybody.” PeopleHelpingCommitmentMythGrandparentDementia Author:Jordan Banks
“All of life is to be lived in the presence and power of God, not just for a few minutes or even an hour in the morning. It's as though we want to take a tiny nibble of spiritual food and hope that sustains us for a while; then we wonder why we're so weary and unable to live as Christ calls us to live. To truly enjoy the abundant life Jesus invited us into, we need to be more aware of God all the time, just as he was. We need that regular, focused quiet time, but we also need to take our awareness of and commitment to God into our more numerous "noisy times".” SpiritualJesusEnjoyChristHoursWonderMorningAwarenessQuietCommitmentFocusedPower Of GodQuiet Time Author:Kenneth Boa
“I do respect Donald Trump. And I think he has a very strong view in terms of security. And we are very strong allies and we work very closely together in Middle East and in order to fight against terrorism. But we didn't agree on two to three issues, and the very first one was on climate. And what it told me is that I took a commitment vis-à-vis my voters. And I told them it was not good for the U.S. and especially the U.S. workers. I tried to convince them. I do believe that on the mid- to long-run it's not true. And I do believe it's important to have on board the U.S. government.” ThinkingBelieveImportantTogetherFightingStrongTermSecurityCommitmentAgreeTerrorismConvinceVery Strong Author:Emmanuel Macron
“When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we have commitments, but the amount of freedom we have with what to do or what to research is humongous compared to others.” ArtistCommitment Author:Paola Pivi
“Leaders instill purpose through their words and their actions. Their communications demonstrate a commitment to vision and mission, but their behaviors underscore its real importance. What a leader does is far more important than what he or she says. People want to see action and help achieve results.” PeopleImportantRealHelpingActionPurposeLeaderVisionAchieveCommunicationBehaviorCommitmentImportance Author:John Baldoni
“The president Donald Trump, unlike previous administrations, has made a real commitment. That is the denuclearization of the peninsula is the mandate. That is what we are going to achieve. The president has made very clear that we're going to do everything we can to do that in a way that doesn't involve military action but has equally made clear that we're not going to stand for allowing Kim Jong-un to hold Los Angeles, or Denver, or New York at risk.” RealActionPresidentRiskAchieveMilitaryCommitmentLos Angeles Author:Mike Pompeo
“The touring thing is such a huge time commitment. I'm really feeling like I want to start writing and recording music again. But I have to leave for tour tomorrow. That's kind of frustrating; at the end of the day, you're plugging into this lifestyle. It's the "band lifestyle," and that's weird! I would like for touring to be creative in its own right.” WritingKindFeelingsCreativeTomorrowCommitmentLifestyleBe CreativeFrustrating Author:Robin Pecknold
“I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. Whether it makes someone laugh, or it has a moral to the story - it doesn't have to be an ethical film, but it has to move people. If it doesn't excite me, it's not worth doing - it's better to work on myself and my own life and wait until another great thing comes along.” PeopleFilmMovingWaitingMoralLaughingCommitmentGreat ThingsMaking A DifferenceEthical Author:Laura Dern