Quotes About Responsibility

For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

As the president of a university community of nearly 15,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, I take very seriously my responsibility to keep our campus safe in an increasingly dangerous world. The concealed carry policy has worked well for us.

When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice.

I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

Can't blame the coaching staff for everything. It's mutual, of course. Players mess up, coaches mess up.

Whenever I get a chance, I want to do well for the other players, the staff, and, of course, the fans.

If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.

I've always been the staff person.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.

The New Labour doctrine that skills training was the responsibility of employers was flawed. The idea that employers should take on a bigger role ignores the reality that employers have no incentive to train staff to leave. We can hardly expect Tesco to train checkout staff to become dental nurses.

I have a staff, but I still work insanely hard.

Many players don't need trust to be a good defensive player, but for me it's huge that the coaching staff believes in me and are putting me on the best player.

The NSC staff should not, as it has in the past, duplicate the work of military officers, diplomats or intelligence officers.

We ask players to communicate - offensive, defense, special teams. Our staff has to communicate that way also.

When you talk to police communications staff and think about their job from an insider's point of view, you can see they have to inch out along a razor's edge every day. They have a duty to be honest. But there's also a responsibility not to inflame.