Quotes About Responsibility

The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.

I've performed pretty well in the games I've captained Australia in and hopefully I can keep it up.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril. They will draw fire. And companies who are integrated will be lauded by their communities and not draw fire.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.