“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”
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“Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 30
Context: Perhaps you think that the crucial difference between a fly and a human blastocyst is to be found in the latter's potential to become a fully developed human being. But almost every cell in your body is a potential human being, given our recent advances in genetic engineering. Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings. This is a fact. The argument from a cell's potential gets you absolutely nowhere.
“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
The first two sentences of this statement first appear as attributed to France in the 1990s, but the full statement is earlier attributed to William Feather, as quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wm0jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&dq=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qYJOU9dAzoXRAYumgcAP&ved=0CMsCEOgBMDQ <br class="br">Misattributed
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
As quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wm0jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&dq=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qYJOU9dAzoXRAYumgcAP&ved=0CMsCEOgBMDQ; the first two sentences of this statement began to be attributed to Anatole France in the 1990s, but without any citations of sources.
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
“Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
Temporary Kings (1973), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)
Variant: Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
19 October 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/4977274727 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
Lea Michele (1986) actress, singer
“Lea Michele: From Gleek to Do-Gooder,” interview with Shape (July 2012) http://www.shape.com/celebrities/interviews/lea-michele-gleek-do-gooder.
“Do not spend your life committing sinful deeds;
It is good for you to practice holy Dharma.”
Milarepa (1052–1135) Tibetan yogi
Source: Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Milarepa / Quotes / The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism / Song to the Hunter