Quotes About Responsibility

He came to pay a debt he didn't owe, Because I owed a debt I couldn't pay!

From Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to Abraham Lincoln's ending of slavery, it's pasty white dudes who've enshrined your ability to hate them.

Classical liberalism doesn't demand that you bow to it. It instructs you to make a decision for yourself. Then, through that process, we can figure out what is best for a society at large.

ISHOULD PROBABLY thank the mainstream media. If it weren't for their abject failure to do their jobs, you'd have no idea who I was.

Instead of focusing on what we can have for "free," or on who we can take from to fund trendy, idealistic projects like the Green New Deal, let's focus on keeping what we earn and cutting spending wherever possible.

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.

shame about being. "We say, I am ashamed of myself. I am guilty for something.

Some people with OCD are compelled to pick up pieces of broken glass from the street. They worry that, if they don't, then someone else might cut themselves on the glass. If the person with OCD fails to prevent that happening, they think, well I may as well have walked up to the stranger and deliberately hurt them. So they take

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS

But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

The world itself is never overwhelmed or confused—only we are, due to how we are engaged with it. An

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

thousands of people is that most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Open loops can include everything from really big to-do items like "End world hunger" to the more modest "Hire new assistant" to the tiniest task such as "Replace porch lightbulb.

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action. Getting

Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

Instead, the key to managing all of your stuff is managing your actions.

Your Mind Doesn't Have a Mind of Its Own At least a portion of your mind is really kind of stupid, in an interesting way. If it had any innate intelligence and logic, it would remind you of the things you needed to do only when you could do something about them.

Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do?

you don't manage priorities—you have them.

many people let themselves get sucked into the second activity—dealing with unplanned and unexpected things that show up—much too easily, and let the other two slide, to their detriment. It is often easier to get wrapped up in the urgent demands of the moment than to deal with your in-tray, e-mail, and the rest of your open loops.