Quotes About Contribution

A truly unselfish team player does not care who gets credit for success and is willing to take on blame when things don't go right. Unfortunately, we live in a world when the selfish seem to outnumber the unselfish. Pat Riley points out that the people who create 20 percent of a team's effectiveness may feel that they are deserving of 80 percent of the credit and rewards. The weaker links on a team or in an organization are often the ones who clamor for more credit.

This was the kind of work I understood. I knew where wood came from, that for every tree cut down, another was planted, that I could make a chair both functional and beautiful. I was adding to the world, not taking.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

The actions, thoughts, and words of each of us are important. All of us together are making the world. So we have to ask ourselves: "How am I living? What kind of actions am I taking? Am I a force for good in the world or am I just another person doing nothing to help and therefore making things worse?

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

I just wanted to do something important.

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.

No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world's literature.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

The forces that motivate jpgm to write reviews are the same ones that inspire people to edit Wikipedia articles: everyone wants to contribute, and everyone has something to contribute somewhere.

Yale philosopher Harry Frankfurt writes, "One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.

If my life could be of some use, I would offer it to anyone.

It seems that a physically weak man is of less value to society than even a lame horse.

The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.

The world is full of remarkable people whose amazing work often goes unnoticed or doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

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To live is not enough; we must take part.

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.