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Honor your commitments with integrity.
Les Brown
Integrity
Honor
Commitments
Your
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
Promises
Winners
Make
Always
Losers
Commitments
Often
Break
Keep
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner
Freedom
Commitment
People
Free
Aimless
Has-Been
Moral
Promptly
Free People
Shared
Self-Destructive
Without
Been
Greatness
America
Commitments
Certain
Who
Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.
Douglas Conant
You
Trust
People
Inspire
Job
Energy
Extraordinary
Everyone
Aligned
Easier
Give
Direction
Gives
Excellence
Results
Deliver
Performance
Execute
Becomes
Enables
Permission
Go
Get
Commitments
Done
Them
Produce
Creating
Your
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
Jenny Shipley
Future
Speak
Action
Difficult
Our
Must
Insufficient
Issues
Expect
Commitments
Children
Grandchildren
Hollow
Us
Act
Tolerated
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Acceptance
Matter
Behavior
Ethics
Group
Other
Morality
Arises
How
Hand
Times
Personal
Commitments
Dismissed
Conscience
Societal
Widespread
All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.
Adrien Brody
Sacrifice
Commitments
Require
Hardship
One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.
Alana Stewart
Myself
Book
Made
About
Brutally
Write
Particularly
Commitments
Decided
Honest
It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
Angela Duckworth
Good
Me
Made
Daughter
Sense
Meet
Kids
Finish
Good Thing
Like
She
Track
Because
Discovered
Very
Commitments
Done
Fulfilling
Teach
Season
Her
Thing
Second
Competing
Started
If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.
Bill Johnson
Result
Made
Congress
Spending
Those
Administration
Purchases
Previous
Had
New
House
House Of Representatives
Make
Because
Still
Coming
Been
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Hit
Commitments
Representatives
Decided
January
Bills
I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.
Charles Ray
Work
Morning
Me
Business
People
Wife
Mountains
Situation
Think
Thinking
City
Some
Brothers
About
More
Around
Lot
Walking
Commitments
While
Early
Early Morning
I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.
Christy Turlington
Needs
Family
Me
Father
Daughter
See
Some
Cases
More
Am
Commitments
Want
Professional
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim
World
Will
Face
Presidents
Muslim
Muslim World
Perceived
Until
Partisan
Make
Always
Commitments
Blue
Want
Us
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm
Reality
Older
Kind
Some
Unbroken
Prevails
Sees
Features
Recovers
Abstract
Drops
Thus
New
Most
New Kind
Commitments
Essential
Which
Forms
Theories
Derived
Theory
Wholeness
Deeper
Basic
Needed
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
Dilip Shanghvi
Time
Innovation
Problem
Approach
Resource
Solving
Higher
Higher Level
Longer
Over
Scientific
Commitments
Problem-Solving
Much
Requires
Novel
Level
Most actresses have multiple commitments, from films to endorsements, that require us to maintain a particular look over a long period. Hence, there is never an opportunity to experiment with hair, so we just settle for a neutral look that we can work with across projects.
Disha Patani
Work
Opportunity
Long
Hair
Experiment
Films
Settle
Projects
Long Period
Neutral
Never
Maintain
Over
Particular
Look
Most
Period
Commitments
Just
Us
Require
Across
Multiple
Hence
Actress
There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Work
Worth
Try
Air
Kids
Worth It
Having
Never
Sacrificing
Make
Sure
Ball
Always
Up
Commitments
Fewer
Going
Social
Means
Event
There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.
Enrique Pena Nieto
People
Goals
Made
Poverty
Security
Percent
Give
Only
Reducing
Mexicans
Reform
Commitments
Social
Many
Social Security
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Frances Beinecke
Dangerous
Honor
Corners
Corporations
Marketplace
Correct
Though
Bad
Some
Cheat
Always
Reduce
Commitments
Pollution
Cut
Many
Mechanisms
Actor
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Gene Tierney
Made
Men
Young
Dated
Dating
Had
None
Commitments
Young Men
Fun
Dozens
Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
George Papandreou
You
Change
Financial
Markets
Financial Markets
Responsibilities
Countries
Like
Executed
Practical
Sell
Commitments
Short
Cannot
Social
Social Change
Swiftly
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
Grover Norquist
Government
Fight
People
Taxpayer
Group
Lobbying
Spending
OK
Run
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Guy
More
Higher
Higher Levels
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Buildings
Nonsense
Handful
Commitments
Them
Less
Groups
Levels
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Gunther Schuller
You
Obligations
Whatever
Musician
Composer
Develop
Long-Term
Involved
Sort
Because
Years
Lot
Conductor
Friendships
Get
Commitments
Being
Sixty
Professional
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
Success
You
Vision
Will
Strategy
Dream
Gum
Eat
Both
Deliver
Delivering
Develop
Implement
Executing
Got
Doing
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Walking
Commitments
Done
Getting
While
Plan
Zero-hours contracts offer an entry point for people who are either new to the workforce or have commitments that make it hard to work full-time.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Work
People
Point
Entry
New
Make
Contracts
Offer
Commitments
Either
Workforce
Hard
Full-Time
Who
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Jeffrey Sachs
Own
Action
Radical
Neglect
Rule
Indeed
States
UN
Followed
Idea
Commitments
Where
Should
United
United States
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