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“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.”

Thinking Country Moments Government Difficult Support Office Commitment Obvious Saved Our Country Euro Membership Difficult Moments

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.”

“I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.”

People Thinking Commitment Relation Not Sure

Author:Sonam Kapoor

“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.”

People Thinking Knows Book Hard Desire Fun Written Amount Commitment Sticks Having Fun

Author:Ted Bell

“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.”

Thinking Men Play Causes Acting Boys Stage He Man Huge Commitment Yeah Frontline

Author:Yul Vazquez

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.”

People Thinking Character Actors Roles Commitment Hollywood

Author:Misty Copeland

“I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.”

Thinking Country House Justice White Commitment White House Ambiguity Racial Justice

Author:Richard Lugar

“I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.”

Thinking Space Shapes Commitment Tools Size Atmosphere Zone Volume Sculptors

Author:Michael Heizer

“[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.”

Thinking Men Cases Offers Commitment Victim Enormous Bother Survivor Law Enforcement Closure

Author:Richard Brown

“I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.”

Thinking Real Facts Vision Commitment Impressed Ceo Strategic Chairman Armstrong Strategic Vision

Author:William Morris

“There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.”

Thinking Should Happens Politician Commitment Thirds Intention Occasions Fulfilling Rail

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.”

People Thinking Should Government Today Century Equal Commitment Institutions Unions Caring Partners Denied Site Companionship Battlefields Collision Weathered

Book:Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry

Source: Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry

“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.”

“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?”

Thinking Film Political Father Literature Possibility Commitment Organization Supportive Evaluate

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Kind Shows Literature Social Common Conditions Awareness Reader Commitment Nerves Manifest Touching Slips Human Condition

Author:Bel Kaufman

“I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.”

“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life”

People Thinking Knows Way Doe Individual Sides Dark Worst Survival Glory Commitment Appreciate Oneself Caring Trauma Dark Side Power Of Love Resiliency

Author:Bessel van der Kolk

“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.”

Thinking Feels Reason Levels Objects Serious Couple Fit Spring Commitment Treats Abuse Mindset Partners Core Reason Why Streams Ownership Abusers Possessiveness

Author:Lundy Bancroft

“I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.”

Thinking Want Care Commitment Don't Care I Don't Care Damn Loyal

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.”

People Thinking Years Believe Given Careers Happened Commitment Organization Get Better Believe In Me Given Up Stride

Author:Mike Conley, Jr.

“I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!”

Ifs Thinking Should Made Born Music Musician Commitment Should I Traveled

Author:Eva Jessye

“I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it's enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing.”

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Author:Alex Karpovsky

“I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us; that's what makes a family. My family is just as real as yours.”

Thinking Children Real Hard Enjoy Mines Deserve Commitment My Family Committed Hard Times

Author:Zach Wahls

“After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.”

Thinking Body Focus Meditation Commitment Motivated Hitting Buttons Juice Cleansing Reset Reset Button

Author:Salma Hayek

“I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.”

Thinking Feels Made Self Commitment Routine Inner Self How You Feel

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.”

Thinking World Firsts Important Country States President United United States Commitment Terrorist Around The World Organisation Intimidated Partnering

Author:Barack Obama

“There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.”

“I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"”

Thinking Humor Funny Half Saws Six Commitment Sells Pops Mess Cents Packs Soda Six Packs Soda Pop

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.”

Thinking Humans Facts Difficult Community Human Beings Walks Commitment Various Divorce Agreement Duration Strands Interconnected Shared Experiences

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.”

Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and

“Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.”

Thinking Benefits Commitment

Book:Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

Source: Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

“As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power”

Thinking Giving Real Choices Failing Commitment Who You Are Diets Staying Fleeting Staying Power

Author:Nir Eyal

“So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.”

“The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.”

Thinking Knows Want Ideas Reality Culture Position Commitment Irony Ironic Engagement Postmodernism

Author:Simon Critchley

“Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.”

People Thinking Heart Mean Whole Feelings Action Remember Desire Emotion Commitment Fundamentals Whole Life Seats

Author:Timothy Keller

“I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives”

People Thinking Needs Wells Littles Joy Commitment

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, "Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work."”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.”

Thinking Sometimes Shows Jobs Certain Can Do Levels Acting Commitment

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else.”

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Author:Lea Michele

“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.”

Thinking Firsts Art Ideas Used Pieces Materials Photography Commitment Photographer Photograph Mediums Eras Just One Recalls

Author:William Wegman

“I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Home Names I Believe Realizing Community Our Lives Commitment Neighborhood Rooted Abstraction Our Community Desolation Specificity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.”

“I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.”

People Thinking Difficult Hours Commitment Appreciation

Author:Alec Baldwin

“I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.”

Thinking Want Firsts Persons Sometimes Hard Lasts Commitment Who You Are Quitting Road To Success First Person

Author:Will Smith

“If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Dream Commitment Your Dreams Dreams Come True Wishful Thinking

Author:Nancy Pickard

“I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.”

People Thinking Knows Should Strong Influence Commitment Troops Deployment American Troops

Author:John McCain

“I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.”

Thinking Way Empathy Commitment Ideology Usefulness Deficiency Devalue

Author:Jim Shepard

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