Quotes About Contribution

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

With my quality, I feel I can bring a lot to a team that I will join. I want to show it in the big leagues: England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France.

You have to know your role. But you need everybody to win games. You can't win by yourself - not in the NBA, not in Europe, not in Spain.

There is no point having team meetings where no one speaks because you don't learn anything.

When you score, it's a great feeling, but to give a great pass means it's something special for me. It's very under-rated what we do.

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

Anybody who tells me theyre not going to pay tax weve got an NHS system on its knees I tell you what, my son was in real trouble when he was young and we took him to the hospital, there were four specialists waiting for him. Thats why you pay your taxes.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

If you want psychic gratification, one of the greatest ways is to know that you've made a real contribution to saving a species from blinking out during your lifetime.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Miami has been my second home for 15 years, so I look forward to spending more and more time here as co-owner of Miami FC, giving my enthusiastic contribution for its success.

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

I've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for the director's contribution in a way that mainstream television doesn't really reflect, I don't think.

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.