“I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.” LongFilmViewsJourneyCommitmentLong Journey Author:Arnon Goldfinger
“Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.” Has BeensTodayLeftUnitedViewsPowerfulBehindsCompassionPrinciplesWindCitizensCommitmentFellowsGenerosityMaskRelevantFoundingLeft BehindHurricanesLeft OutDevastatedKatrinaHurricane Katrina Author:Edward Kennedy
“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
“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.” PeopleWorldNeedsLongStatesProblemEarthMovingHumanityUnitedViewsCommonResponsibilityUnited StatesEnvironmentMilitaryBuildingBenefitsCommitmentBetter OffBad PeopleSuperpowerCommon HumanityShared Responsibility Author:William J. Clinton
“Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.” MenMayValuesChoicesViewsActingParticularConscienceCommitmentRationalAgentsConsistentlyStanceEvaluationWeber Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.” WayHeartPurposeViewsKnownIgnoranceParticularCommitmentClaimsCoreBetrayDefiningExclusiveCaricaturesSamenessUncompromisingWho God Is Author:Ravi Zacharias
“Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.” ShouldViewsSpeechCommitmentMajorityContraryOverwhelmingFree SpeechMonument Author:Al Gore
“One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.” MatterGuyViewsSituationOne ThingCommitmentNo Matter WhatOddsGood GuyAgainst All Odds Author:Molly Crabapple
“I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.” PeopleThinkingImportantPoliticalHumanityDifficultPoorViewsParticularKingsCommitmentFundamentalsOppressionRadicalAnalysisCategoriesDominationLuther Author:Cornel West
“Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.” WellsEnoughCausesWaterViewsEffortPovertyEnvironmentReturnCommitmentResourcesCancerPoint Of ViewBrandsBreastsCategoriesEngagementBreast CancerDeclaring Author:Simon Mainwaring
“A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.” WantBeliefViewsObjectsCommitmentPoint Of ViewJournalismObjectivity Author:Nate Silver
“From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.” PeopleAbleMovingGivenSocialViewsCitiesEconomicCommitmentTownsPoint Of ViewBeneficialHomeownership Author:James Surowiecki
“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
“Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.” PersonsHas BeensSaidViewsCommitmentLove And Responsibility Author:Pope John Paul II
“The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides are considered important and an attempt is made to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately called Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict resolution.” NeedsPersonsMadeImportantMotivationWinningProcessDifficultSidesResultsViewsAcceptanceInvolvedConflictSolutionsCommitmentIncreaseStrategyOutcomesConsiderationResolutionLoserAcceptableBoth SidesNegotiationDesirableConstructiveConflict ResolutionProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemWin WinInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Gabor Peter
“The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.” ViewsRocksBalancePhotographyCommitmentLaborInvestmentAbsurdEnjoymentSnakes Author:Robert Adams
“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
“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.” PeopleMenFirstsLongLawYoungBlackJusticeViewsBattleDrugCommitmentThirdsSentencesMythCriminalsPunishmentOur TimeTreatmentIllegalUrbanHarshLaw EnforcementEnforcementPossessingJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemIllegal Drugs Author:John P. Walters
“Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.” FactsPoliticalViewsSituationOpinionCommitmentHistoricalDuesPrisonerPublic OpinionPolitical Prisoners Author:Dilma Rousseff
“Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.” TryingPersonsSelfDesireUnderstandingViewsAttitudeInfluenceCommitmentPoint Of View Author:John C. Maxwell