Quotes About Responsibility

El liderazgo gira en torno a la necesidad de captar y dirigir eficazmente la atención colectiva.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristic they are helpless to change.

Todos formamos parte de la caja de herramientas del otro para el cambio emocional, para bien o para mal.

Os cuidados médicos falham quando os pacientes não seguem aquilo que o médico lhes diz; cerca de metade de todos os medicamentos que os médicos prescrevem aos pacientes nunca é tomada. O elemento que mais fortemente pode prever se um paciente seguirá essas instruções é sentir que o médico está genuinamente preocupado consigo.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Temptations are like dirty dishes.  There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up.  And there are some who must do them right away.

The bus driver gave me a why-the-hell-aren't-you-at-school look and I gave him a shut-up-you're-a-bus-driver-so-bus-drive look right back.

one hears it a lot on airplanes:Make sure you have own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or "pan-agnostic" bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.

There comes a point in a man's life when he has to take control of things. Otherwise, things will just keep controlling him.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

I realize now that my feeling for Alice had been moving backward against the current of my learning, from worship, to love, to fondness, to a feeling of gratitude and responsibility.

Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel

Sigo dizendo de novo e de novo que tenho que fazer algo mas então me esqueço ou talvez seja só mais fácil não fazer o que digo que vou fazer

Work is not about doing what you want to do; work is about serving others.

Human beings thrive when they are growing and developing and this requires discipline. Discipline and accountability keep us alive.

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?