Quotes About Responsibility

How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.

No," she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: "I want them to see what they've done.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. [ Blog post, March 12, 2012 ]

Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.

There is no right choice. You chose. Your job now is to make the most of that choice.

The fact that you're poised to commit genocide undermines your judgement on ethical matters.

When we have the habit of setting as a goal only activity that we can accomplish and that is genuinely productive, we've taken the first step to getting some real work done. Rather than succeeding or not succeeding almost by accident in the service of some goal that's really beyond our control, we've taken the first step to taking responsibility for our actions and to end what is, really, self-deception (and probably companywide deception).

It's too easy to sell or not sell fifty widgets this week, or to sign or fail to sign the contract with your supplier. It's much more difficult to behave and act at all times in a disciplined, systematic way. But this is what you must do in order to achieve what you're capable of.

Take responsibility for the bad decision, learn from it, embrace the failure, and soldier on without fear because you are only one decision away from getting back on track. But

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The modern world was a burning bus speeding toward a cliff with a maniac at the wheel. And he was not apart, but complicit, a hyperactive child making yuk-yuks in his seat, keeping everyone laughing, distracting them from certain doom. Faster, faster, no more room to brake.

Creo que madurar no significa ser una persona seria, mucho menos aburrida, madurar es poder jugar, tontear, bromear, hacer sonreír como un niño, pero recordando nuestras responsabilidades, aceptar que ya no somos niños, pero sin olvidar que lo fuimos.

they're fucking up minds they do not own.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

Rechazar los requerimientos de Dios no nos libera para que disfrutemos de nuestra independencia. En cambio, nos lleva a ataduras cada vez más complicadas. Dios

Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.