Quotes About Contribution

Are you a consumer or producer?

Child support payments should be set with greater sensitivity to a father's ability to pay, and considering their nonmonetary contributions, including the direct provision of care for their children. Oregon, for example, has a "parenting time credit" that reduces child support payments made by a noncustodial parent if they spend more time caring for their children.

The sexual division of labor refers to women and men making different and complementary contributions to the household economy. Though the specific activities of each sex vary by culture, the gendered division of labor is a human universal. It is therefore assumed to have appeared well before modern humans started spreading across the globe sixty thousand to seventy thousand years ago.

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times? My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times?

The difference between being a church attender and a church member is commitment. Attenders are spectators from the sidelines; members get involved in the ministry. Attenders are consumers; members are contributors. Attenders want the benefits of a church without sharing the responsibility. They are like couples who want to live together without committing to a marriage.

If you want a rich life, then enrich the lives of others.

The Japanese have a word for what gets you out of bed in the morning: they call it your ikigai. Your ikigai is that sense you have when you wake up that this day matters, that there are new experiences to be had, that you have work to do, a contribution to make. Sometimes this is referred to as your calling, other times your vocation, your destiny, your path. Your ikigai is your reason for being.

All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.

It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

The tendency to see one's shadow "out there" in one's neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche. It has created two devastating wars in this century and threatens the destruction of all the fine achievements of our modern world. We all decry war but collectively we move toward it. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

The tendency to see one's shadow "out there" in one's neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

Contribute less to the general darkness of the world and do not add to the collective shadow that fuels war and strife.

On the wall over his head as he worked was a framed quote from President Calvin Coolidge: "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: 'Them that's going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way'.

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.

You know, without realizing it we fill important places in each other's lives.

For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals." (3478-2)

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

Most of [the alchemists] were poor; many all but unknown in their own time, many died and saw no fruit of their labours… Of some the very names are forgotten. But though their names be dead, their works live, and grow and spread over ever fresh generations of youth, showing them fresh steps towards that temple of wisdom which is the knowledge of things as they are.

Chris] gave his life in exchange for knowledge and his story is his contribution to the world. I feel complete now to put this story behind me as it was on my mind for quite some time.