“I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.” PersonsHateIndividualKnowingI HateCommittedAssumption Author:Susan Sarandon
“The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.” EndsStoriesMotivationalIndividualVisionTeamMountainAchievementPreparedExtraordinaryCommittedClimbingUnifiedMountain ClimbingMost InspiringIndividual AchievementShared Vision Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics. I really am a kind of small government person and I'm most certainly a fiscal conservative and strong on national defense.” ThinkingBelieveKindPersonsGovernmentIndividualStrongI BelieveTermLibertyGroupsRepublicanConservativeCommittedDefenseVery StrongIndividual LibertyNational DefenseSmall Government Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.” IndividualBloodFashionColdLettersAccountsArmyCommittedProofChineseBehaveElsewhereContinuingConvincingCredibilityCiviliansAtrocitiesEyewitnessesAtrocities Committed Author:Koki Hirota
“The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.” FeelsPersonsActionIndividualSuccessfulGenerationsModernCommittedBeing SuccessfulMotto Author:Alexander Lowen
“Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?” MenMadeYoungOrderIndividualResponsibilityAtheismTalentMovementMassCommittedBurdenPositive AtheismShouldersGuiltyHypocrisySheerNaziFilesCheatedArdentObeyingNot GuiltyIndividual Responsibility Author:Eric Hoffer