#commit

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#commit #decisions #easy #first #hard

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#commitments #countries #democracy #direction #human

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#anything #body #commitment #completely #cut

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. ↗

— Jack Welch

#chewing #chewing gum #commitments #deliver #delivering

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand. ↗

— Barry White

#being #bible #commit #hand #heart

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George Will

#america #combines #committee #football #meetings

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. ↗

— Neil Young

#business #commitments #music #music business #things

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

#because #commitment #committed #deep #favorite

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#certain #certain point #commitment #hoping #keeping