Mark Parker

I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.

American Businessman

Mariella Frostrup

Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.

British Journalist

Kanika Dhillon

I will write an entire script but not be commissioned by anyone. I want the freedom to walk away from it. If you're uncomfortable, I will go away. There is no middle ground with me. Also because if I change my character, my story changes.

Indian Author

Janet Echelman

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

American Artist

Amy Tan

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.

American Novelist

Wanderlei Silva

I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.

Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist

Caleb Cushing

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

American Diplomat

John Lloyd

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

British Producer

Sue Perkins

When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.

English Comedian

Gulzar

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

Indian Poet

Understand that a commission is formed for a specific purpose or task.

Purpose Specific

Members of a commission are granted authority to make decisions on the assigned topic.

Authority Given

Commission as income depends on performance, like how much one sells.

Performance Based

A commission is over and above the base salary and earned per item or service sold.

Extra Earnings

To commission something means to formally request it to be made or done.

Official Request

Commissioning can apply to various projects, like studies, artworks, or buildings.

Initiating Projects

In legal terms, 'commission' refers to the act of committing a wrongdoing.

Legal Responsibility

A commission often means representing someone else's interests or authority.

Representation

A commission can signify the conferral of a specific position, especially in military or government.

Rank and Role

 and so forth. How many of these people are there in an economy like the US? Electric utilities are monopolies, and so they're regulated by utilities commissions. Otherwise they'd jack up the price too high. Every state has a utilities commission, a public utilities commission. These commissions typically have five members.

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 because that's not really how you get commissions. You always have to sort of adapt and improvise to the opportunities and accidents that happen, and the sort of turmoil of the world. One last example is that recently we, like last summer, we won the competition

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 not only for their beauty, but their adherence to a particular tradition. And the customer who commissioned and paid for the work, whether it was a fine chair, a stone sculpture, a gold necklace, or an entire building, was more likely to get credit

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 One of things I think that stunned everybody at the end of the trip was that she decided to write a book about it. And I think to everybody's astonishment the book resonated with people all over the world. So the story was, this was commissioned

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 by the company who are paid thirty three percent commission and whom the process not only on self-respect and income but are able to use it to educate and provide better health for their children there are companies who act as

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 with features from both these traditions. Often commissioned by rulers and other powerful people, these maps were meant to depict the world’s geography, but not necessarily to be useful for navigation.

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 sculptor he helped scientists visualize long extinct pre-human species but the commission that just landed in his inbox is unlike anything he's attempted before

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 after some hours all the commission of the deer are its hind legs