Quotes About Contribution

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourseld, the more energy you will have.

And as John F. Kennedy described the ideals behind what would become the Peace Corps, he issued a challenge to the students who had assembled in Ann Arbor on that October night: "on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country," he said, will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can," he said.

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

What," I said, "in your estimation, is the greatest good a man can do?" 'The greatest good he can do is to cultivate himself, develop his powers, in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

that all good math had come from the Arabs, everyone knew that.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Remember, it's not just 'to each according to her need,' it's 'from each according to her ability.' I know how to find factories that are perfect for direct action. I know how to get into them. I know how to pwnify their machines. I know how to throw a hell of a party. I have all this unearned, undeserved privilege. Apart from killing myself as an enemy of the human species, can you think of anything better for me to do with it?

Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?

most of what I hated about present-day America was stuff I helped to invent.

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Libraries and museums owe their richest collections to people who cannot bear to think that their names might perish from the memory of the race.

The Negro worked as farmhand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it would have been impossible.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

That you are here - that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.

When you help build something, you own it, you're vested in it. That's far more rewarding than having it handed down to you."111

When I hear that kind of thing," he responded, "it reminds me of what the beaver told the rabbit as they stood at the base of Hoover Dam: 'No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine.

Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.