Quotes About Responsibility

There is no finish line to leadership.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

Like I always say, the goal every day is not to get fired.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

I want to see the free movement of our ambos being able to get to and from where they need to be, I need our firies out fighting fires, and I need our police out doing their job as well.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

I'm a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.

I'm a firm believer in not leaving people out to dry.