“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.” CoursesSocialEconomicSeriousDevelopmentCitizensCommitmentMeetingsOilBudgetsGasComponentsRevenueFundingProgrammesEconomic DevelopmentOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser's mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit.” ThinkingFeelsReasonLevelsObjectsSeriousCoupleFitSpringCommitmentTreatsAbuseMindsetPartnersCoreReason WhyStreamsOwnershipAbusersPossessiveness Author:Lundy Bancroft
“From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.” PeopleLoveYearsMadeCountryAgeLastsSeriousCommitmentArmySevenSoldierFiftyTwelveLast YearRetired Book:It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf Source: It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf
“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.” WayHas BeensRealPoliticalBlackWhiteTalkingSeriousDiversityCommitmentPrisonSurpriseUniversityVersionsIdeologyEngagedBrownNot TalkingBlack WhitePolitical IdeologyAmerican Universities Author:Richard Rodriguez
“You've got the principled people who maybe are on salaried jobs, or CEOs, entrepreneurs, and all of those that are great people, but if you're not appealing - the permanent coalition is to join that with traditional Americans who feel like, that things aren't going well for them, and to develop policies that improve their lifestyle, not just upper-income lifestyles. And once that's believed by working people, that it's serious and a commitment and you care about people like me, for a change, Republicans could create a new majority.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsCareJobsPolicySeriousRepublicanCommitmentMajorityEntrepreneurLifestyleIncomeLike MeTraditionalPermanentCeoGreat PeopleCoalitionsPrincipled Author:Jeff Sessions
“My hope is that Barack Obama will make a serious long term commitment to bringing many more women, minorities and young people into leadership positions within the Democratic Party. That's the way to plan for the future. The US faces some incredibly rough challenging times ahead.” PeopleWayLongFacesYoungTermChallengesPartyPlansPositionSeriousCommitmentDemocraticBarackLong TermMinoritiesRoughDemocratic PartyChallenging Times Author:Rob Kall
“He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.” ShouldIdeasFeelingsViewsCasesSeriousCommitmentDeterminedDevotionTendernessShockedArbitraryFidelityTransient Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE
“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.” KindBookEndsBigsGirlEnjoySeriousCommitmentThanksGuaranteesGoing OutSpend TimeHappy EndingsGuarantees ThatBig BookSerious Relationship Author:Mick Foley
“Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them.” WayNeedsFirstsTwoCountryProblemHandsGovernmentActionNationsSupportPolicySeriousMoralityCommitmentExtremesWorthyOur CountryBehavePatriotismPatriotUnconditionalModeratesViolationTwo WaysConditional Author:Stephen Nathanson
“Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.” WantWritingHardDoneMagicSeriousHard WorkReaderProjectsCommitment Author:Suze Orman