Quotes About Contribution

he's no for shutting down the whole kirk. The faithful need to get in, he says.' His gaze slid sideways to meet Gil's. 'Them and their pence,

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.

A good improviser is someone who is awake, not entirely self-focused, and moved by a desire to do something useful and give something back and who acts upon this impulse.

I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing you love doing.

Other major challenges include the redefinition of work as a contribution to the good of all, as opposed to merely being a matter of pure self- advancement.

An awful lot of people come onto earth, eat, work and die and never contribute anything to the world,' Albert Price told a reporter. 'If they die, at least they will have done something.

My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who take the time to consume it? Am I contributing in a positive way to the overall kind of collective consciousness of people in the world? I worry about that.

If you make art, and you're not trying to make the world a better place, then what the fuck are you doing?!

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." I was confused again.

A meaningful life, at least to some extent, has to do with what one does and how one affects people.

In experimental work, people tend to contribute more to a charity when they expect to endure pain and suffering for that cause—the so-called martyrdom effect.

Encouraging your firm to have a decent sense of purpose is your contribution to society, but continuing to work for one which lacks purpose is personally soul-destroying.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

today they are usually called the Fresnel integrals. One does still see them also called the Euler integrals, however, and it was Euler who first evaluated them.

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

You make a living out of what you get and make a life out of what you give...

Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.