Quotes About Contribution

Work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes undying part of a totality. That totality is human life. Past and present and to come forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens and thousands of years. And has been growing more elaborate, and on the whole more beautiful.

Lo importante es lo que uno hace en este mundo, no cómo se llega a él

L'importante è quel che si fa al mondo, e non come ci si arriva.

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.

I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

People will support that which they help to create.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.