Quotes About Contribution

If you're not focusing on becoming so good they can't ignore you, you're going to be left behind. This clarity is refreshing. It tells you to stop worrying about what your job offers you, and instead worry about what you're offering the world. This mindset–which I call the craftsman mindset-allows you to sidestep the anxious questions generated by the passion hypothesis—"Who am I?", "What do I truly love?"—and instead put your head down and focus on becoming valuable.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

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His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.

There's a story about David Mamet, a pure genius of human behavior. When told about the complaints of two famous cast members in one of his plays, he joked "If they didn't want to be stars, they shouldn't have had those awful childhoods." It's not an original revelation that some who have weathered great challenges when they were young, created great things as adults...People with the most secret childhoods can make the most public contributions.

River mostly contributed backing vocals and handclaps, although he may have played some guitar on "Rock Out with Your Cock Out.

While the earth spins, make yourself useful.

Life is worthless unless you give back more than you take.

Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S.

I'm sick of you all acting like I'm this English freak raining on your little math-science parade. Sung seems to think my contribution to this team is a little less than everyone else's." "Anyone can memorize book titles!" Sung shouted. "Oh, please.Like I care what you think? You don't even know the difference between Keats and Byron.

hen you're writing software, you have to ask, "Are we saving babies here?" If you're writing software that is actually helping babies to survive, then you should take your software really seriously. But if you're just making a shopping cart, you should turn it down a notch and take a breather. - Scott Hanselman

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?

I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed artistically, literally, and scientifically to human culture as much as any human being now alive. What more can one ask?