Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rollo May

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

Tom Lehrer

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

Steve Mahoney

If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

Steve Harvey

Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.

Stephen Covey

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

Stephen Covey

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Thomas Carlyle

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Tony Campolo

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Tony Campolo

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Steven Spielberg

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

Steve Buyer

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Shirley Hazzard

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Steven Adler

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew

Steven Pinker

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

Steven Pinker

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Steven Pinker

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

Susan Jeffers

Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.

Sumner Redstone

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Robbie Fowler

Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment. (on Stuart Pearce)

Richard Griffiths

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

Tariq Ramadan

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Suze Orman

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.

Joseph Bruchac

There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.

Kofi Annan

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Ralph Ellison

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Thierry Henry

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

Terry Tempest Williams

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.

Terry Gross

It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met [with Hillary Clinton], how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.

Terry Bradshaw

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

Simon Mainwaring

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Richard Brown

[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.