“Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.” PeopleBeliefGivenShareStandardsCommitmentProfessionEtcFaith In GodEnthusiasticDenominations Author:Zig Ziglar
“You had to work tremendously hard. You had to have that commitment to training, you had to have that innate ability. It's similar in my profession as well. You can have the ability, but without the work, passion and the commitment, you won't really get there.” WellsHardPassionAbilityTrainingCommitmentProfessionInnatePassion For Work Author:Paul Rankin
“Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.” MayStillsMatterGovernmentMightTalkingInformationSourceProtectCommitmentProfessionJournalist Author:Laura Poitras
“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.” IfsKindArtAbleSexRealizingAbilityRolesPlansAchieveMovementIdentityThousandPercentCommitmentBlameDivorceMotherhoodProfessionFemininePermitForbiddenLifelongObsoleteMystiqueFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“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.” ThinkingHumansMayI CanTwoPoliticalValuesSpiritualityEnergyCan DoReligiousStruggleFieldsEmotionalCommitmentHarmonyProfessionMy TimeHuman Values Author:Dalai Lama
“Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.” RealMatterCareCoursesInterestCommitmentNo Matter WhatProfessionHealth CareServingClientsOathRogues Author:Peter Singer
“It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.” ThinkingMadeForceDifficultMy OwnWiseCollegeCommitmentProfessionDancerJustifyInteriorsParental Author:Twyla Tharp
“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well” WantWritingWellsMomentsWorkChangedCommitmentBurdenProfession Author:Agatha Christie
“I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.” SocialEmotionalSourceDrugCommitmentSexyProfessionAlcoholChosenThriveInsecurityDrankIntercourseDrunkenness Author:Lynda Bellingham
“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
“There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.” GivingHumansCareNextGreaterGenerationsCallingFutureCommitmentHistoricalProfessionPreservationHuman Knowledge Author:Laurence Overmire