“There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.” NeedsRealEndsHelpingCommunityNumbersViolenceSafeCommitmentInternationalProsperityCyclesPassagesInternational CommunityWords Of SympathyCycle Of Violence Author:Kofi Annan
“Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?” IfsPersonsHappensCertainEasyNumbersQualityStyleCommitmentForgivingFaultsBoringCharacteristicsBoresDefectsGood QualityEndearing Book:The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel
“We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.” WayNeedsAmericaGrowsNumbersMajorsCommitmentInnovationInvestmentOilDependenceInfrastructureManufacturingRebuildingForeign Oil Author:Nancy Pelosi
“This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeRealSoulMatterDoneLightIndividualLevelsNumbersMillionsMovementMassCommitmentDareWhat MattersParticipationConnectingSmall NumbersReal Work Author:Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.” HumansEndsEarthMotivationValuesAsksLossNumbersFictionTalentAdventureHugeSixCommitmentDirectScience FictionBillionsTinyIdeologyHuman LifeThe End Of The DayComparisonRelativeContinuingSurvivingParticipantsRoboticsSpace TravelDispassionateVicariousSpaceflightScience Fiction MovieRelative Value Author:James Van Allen
“Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.” MayDoeCertainIndividualChanceLossNumbersImpossibleSecurityCommitmentSafetyInvestingProfitWork OutFavorsGuaranteesInvestorsExceedMargins Author:Benjamin Graham
“Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.” MenEndsBigsChristianEvilHeavenPeaceNumbersCommitmentTownsStructureAncientConvictionContestsDisturbedIntimidatedColonyConvictsIntoxicatedInfanticide Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment.” GivingYearsBelieveMadeArtistSongWishMemoriesNumbersCareersRecordsMinesProudCoupleCommitmentRedTrackButtonsRetrospectFond Memories Author:Greg Lake
“I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.” HumansTwoValuesThreeNumbersRaceCommitmentThirdsHarmonyCommittedRetirementPromotionHuman ValuesTibetNumber Three Author:Dalai Lama
“Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.” ShouldRealityNumbersIssuesTheoryNeededCommitmentVoteOvercomingDebateSenatorsFilibuster Author:Evan Bayh
“More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.” CertainJesusNumbersIssuesCommitment Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.” ViewsNumbersProductsCommitmentAffairInsightProfessionIgnorantConfusionObservationJournalismJournalistLazySubstitutesArrogantInterventionAlcoholismYoungstersHacksOpinionatedLucidityPublic AffairsImpassionedToiling Author:Conrad Black
“The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.” PersonsCharacterCommunityNumbersHonorCommitmentCourtTyrannyAwfulDoomDistinguishedDiscretionSmall NumbersInfamyImpeachmentConfidential Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.” GivingLittlesWholeProblemThreeBitsLosesNumbersStupidExampleSceneLittle BitJokesCommitmentComedianTediousInevitabilityPubsHandicapsBlokesBail Author:Bill Bailey