Quotes About Responsibility

Please understand that when I use this term – technical win – I'm referring to the responsibility to both convince the audience of the technical superiority of the solution and establish the business value of the investment.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Is this your stuff? Is this your TV? Did you drop your goddamn TV on my brand new car?

You're acting as if you believe this is our fault." "Of course it's our fault!" Walter was almost shouting now.

We can analyze what went wrong and discuss our own responsibility or lack thereof in private, but shouting that we are responsible out here, where that angry mob out front can hear us? That's a very bad idea.

I still think we need to stick to our original plan," Bell said. "We brought him into this world, it's up to us to send him away.

He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him.

I ask myself what gives a person, what gave that woman, the right to confront us with decisions that we are not equal to making, decisions that tear us apart and leave us feeling inferior, incompetent, guilty.

Circe: Do you know what they're looking for, Medea? she asked me. They're looking for a woman who'll tell them that they're not guilty of anything; that the gods, whom they worship by chance, compel them in their undertakings. That the track of blood they leave behind is proper to their male nature as the gods have determined it.

Seguiré siendo testigo aun cuando no haya un solo ser humano que me pida mi estimonio

I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.

Darf der Mensch wohl alles tun, was recht ist, oder muß er sich damit begnügen, daß nur alles recht ist, was er tut?

Wenn die Menschen gewisse Exemplare ihrer eigenen Gattung aus Bosheit oder aus Unverstand, aus Gleichgültigkeit oder aus Angst vernichten müssen, dann fällt uns, bestimmt, vernichtet zu werden, eine unglaubliche Fähigkeit zu. Die Freiheit, die Menschen zu lieben und uns selbst nicht zu hassen.

Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the questions that they expect to come from an actor. I do get that a lot. But there's a great difference between being able to stand there and make suggestions when it ultimately doesn't stop at you versus when it does. I think my issue with directing would probably be that I am kind of a loner. I like being responsible for myself.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.

Aucun individu ne pouvait posséder la justice; seule Maât, au corps aussi léger qu'une plume d'autruche, connaissait le poids des actes. Aux magistrats de la servir avec la tendresse d'un enfant pour sa mère. (...) - Qui êtes-vous donc, Pazair? - Un juge d'Égypte. (Justification du titre de la série)

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

Industries which have the bad fortune to deal directly with the public—especially where the public's total physical and mental welfare are one's responsibility for periods of from an hour to three or four days at a stretch—will always be fair game for public abuse.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Here's the deal. When another individual is completely disconnected from their well-being and their joy, this has absolutely nothing to do with you on any level. You didn't attract this. You are not responsible for it. The only thing you are responsible for is your own energy field. And when you learn how to pay attention to that—and only that—you're free.

It's very easy to diagnose a borderline. They screw you over, rip you off, commit whatever transgression, and then they blame you for it.

Not all who become leaders crave the power that goes with it.