![Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.](/assets/img/quote-photos/any-experience-deeply-felt-makes-some-men-better-and-some-men-worse-when-it-has.jpg)
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not. Carlos Ghosn
commitment people
We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make. Rob Fields
commitment want lasts
Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did. Charlie Daniels
commitment who-i-am knowing
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand. Charles Taylor
commitment ifs
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. Charles Dickens
commitment reflection giving
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God. Charles Stanley
commitment desire level shown team
We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.
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The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.
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The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have. Richard G. Scott
journey awareness force
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces. Carlos Castaneda
journey needs helping
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
journey men people
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own. C. S. Lewis
journey long wish
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.
journey use legs
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.
journey civilization understanding
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward. Alan Kay
journey important answers
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. Charles de Lint
journey unexpected scientist
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. Brian Cox
journey dont-change
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some. David Mitchell
degrees done sitcom
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. David Alan Grier
degrees hours found
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. Jane Austen
degrees measuring productivity
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
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Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian Chetan Bhagat
degrees heading warmer
We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.
degrees highs lows predict several warmer winter
This winter has been several degrees warmer than usual. Normally, we would predict highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.
degrees hysterical easy
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. Bill Nighy
degrees bliss form
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Desiderius Erasmus
degrees certain university
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. Charles Babbage