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Quotes About Contribution

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
~ Ken Robinson
When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
~ Eric Thomas
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ Willam James
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.
~ Cab Calloway
Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
~ Jerome Kern
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
~ Dave Lombardo
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
~ Pablo Casals
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
~ Bing Crosby
Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.
~ Robert Plant
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
~ Buck Owens
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
~ Mary Landrieu
If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.
~ William Westney
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.
~ Dave Grohl
I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.
~ Jimmy Cliff
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
~ Brian Mulroney
The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.
~ John Medina
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
~ John Malkovich
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.
~ Baden Powell
There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.
~ K.M. Douglas, Cities of Blood
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
~ Robert Reich
If I cannot be useful to my country, I'll try to be useful to my leader and to all the people around me.
~ Johni Pangalila
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi