Quotes About Accountability

he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come

The crime is the punishment.

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who's saved? Who's not?

human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

Then the anger about blaming society for the situation in which we find ourselves — blaming, say, man for the situation in which woman finds herself. I don't believe in that because I believe very much our double responsibility, that we engage ourselves in destructive relationships, that we have a part of the responsibility, unconsciously.

Demanding accountability is no game, and there's nothing wrong with trying to understand who made mistakes, who failed.

There were plenty of mistakes to go around. I just want someone to admit to them.

What did he think? That time moved forward? No, for the good times it slipped out of your hands like water, but when things went wrong time stopped. It stopped and stared at you and never took its eyes away from what you'd done. I hope they hurt you in there. If you come looking for Susan, you will be sorry.

So, unless you've embezzled money outright or murdered someone and want me to hide the body, I won't be getting in any deeper than I already am.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

CEO Harry Stonecipher

Responsibility is something you actively agree to.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

One of the cornerstones of the pragmatic philosophy is the idea of taking responsibility for yourself and your actions in terms of your career advancement, your project, and your day-to-day work.

it is up to you to provide solutions, not excuses.

One broken window—a badly designed piece of code, a poor management decision that the team must live with for the duration of the project—is all it takes to start the decline. If you find yourself working on a project with quite a few broken windows, it's all too easy to slip into the mindset of All the rest of this code is crap, I'll just follow suit.

it is equally unprofessional to promise impossible time scales and to cut basic engineering corners to meet a deadline.

It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it • Sophocles, Ajax

Responsibility is something you actively agree to. You make a commitment to ensure that something is done right, but you don't necessarily have direct control over every aspect of it.

When you do accept the responsibility for an outcome, you should expect to be held accountable for it. When you make a mistake (as we all do) or an error in judgment, admit it honestly and try to offer options.

Don't blame someone or something else, or make up an excuse. Don't blame all the problems on a vendor, a programming language, management, or your coworkers.

Don't leave broken windows (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired.

Estimates given at the coffee machine will (like the coffee) come back to haunt you.