At school he received the foundations of a solid humanist culture and decided to devote his life to literature.
I fell in love with the food and decided to devote my time to learning about it.
About six weeks into the trip, he bought his first drawing supplies, and decided to devote his life to making art.
She abandoned it when she ceased to be a social worker in the Netherlands and decided to devote her life to yoga.
Shaffer threw up the job and decided to devote himself full time to writing, eked out by a little literary criticism.
That would seem a hard gig to bail on, but he did, and, around 1972, he got interested in Freud and decided to devote himself to unearthing anything and everything associated with Freud's life.
He used to work in advertising but tired of coming up with pithy straplines and decided to devote the rest of his life to craggy peaks, perilous ledges – and managing Up at the O2.
The facts are that Gates has identified the world's greatest inequity -- the death of third world children, often from preventable diseases -- and decided to devote almost all his wealth to doing what he can to save their lives.
In California in 1991, he met a man who had just hauled his injured 120-pound dog, a Rhodesian ridgeback, 100 miles up the Pacific Coast in a rickshaw, and decided to devote his life to the human-powered vehicle.
And it was about a year into this thing when I began to, I think, fully understand the power of this, like, very, very simple idea and decided to devote the rest of my life to building it into something that I hope eventually in this country kind of moves the needle on getting people to listen to one another.
