Quotes About Contribution

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

You are what you leave behind.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality —people should be rewarded in proportion to what they contribute, even if that guarantees unequal outcomes.

all the reasons people with serious mental illness were ignored: they don't contribute to society, they don't make money, they're difficult, they're disenfranchised—who's going to pay attention to them? Until something tragic happens; then it's a nightmare. This was the nightmare.

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued." But, he adds, it is out of failure that a person often finds the inner strength to grow and attain major achievements in life. "A lot of people make a big contribution to society out of their own suffering," he says. "A crisis forces change.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Givers reject the notion that interdependence is weak. Givers are more likely to see interdependence as a source of strength, a way to harness the skills of multiple people for a greater good.

Overall, on average, happier people earn more money, get higher performance ratings, make better decisions, negotiate sweeter deals, and contribute more to their organizations. Happiness alone accounts for about 10 percent of the variation between employees and job performance.

What matters is the value people create, not the space they inhabit.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Waiting for salvation is, therefore, not a passive state of being; it is rather the active doing of every person whose every thought and deed can contribute to the redemption of the universe.

There is no fear that modern works of real value will look pale and worthless beside the monuments of the past. That which is contributed to the general store of human culture often fulfills a necessary role, in order to keep the memory of old achievements alive, because this memory alone is the standard whereby our own works are properly appreciated.

We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.