Quotes About Responsibility

Real finance has human oversight and trusted responsibility all through it — and not automated systems that humans can't touch. Unfortunately, Libra's Bitcoin ancestry was still clear in the design of the system.

If time travel is the ultimate personal freedom, then it's also the ultimate personal responsibility.

I don't know how other people feel about college, but to me, it's overrated. College gives you living experience in an environment where you have to be responsible for yourself—but very little more than that. If you learn anything, you've done it yourself.

In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the owrds we use to tie each other down.Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis

I am going to make too much money today, Mikhail. I will have to give you some of it or my conscience will trouble me-not too much, though. I do not have a very large conscience.

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

Let him be, Dad," Weird said. "It's not your fault if Chigger wants to be a sociopath. You can blame it on Mom.

What have you done today with your inheritance of time?

Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.

I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?

Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honourably and fairly.

Care for your men. Maintain discipline. Always set an example. You take fewer casualties attacking than retreating: "Your job is not to die for your country but to make the other son of a bitch die for his country." Once engaged, give no quarter. Drill, drill, drill. Stay alert, stay alive.

I learned in WW II," he said, "that the slightest bit of excitement in a leader is transmitted to the men. You might be afraid, but the fear gets magnified in the troops. Somebody has to keep his cool. If you're a decent leader, you don't dare lose it—for your own good. You've got to keep your unit up there doing its job.

General Bruce Clarke's Guidelines for the Leader and the Commander

the slightest bit of excitement in a leader is transmitted to the men. You might be afraid, but the fear gets magnified in the troops. Somebody has to keep his cool. If you're a decent leader, you don't dare lose it— for your own good. You've got to keep your unit up there doing its job.

the only thing to do was not worry about it at all, and have the best damn time you could while you were around. Of course, being a leader helped. You were always too busy bringing in air and artillery, moving your people and shepherding your herd, to take time to focus in on yourself, on where you might be in a moment's time.

There are dangers in this model of succumbing to "committee-itis." If too many people are jointly responsible for the execution of firm business, the chances that implementation will be deferred increase exponentially.

Members of the firm must feel that they have approved the leaders and that the leaders are accountable to them.

Managers should be hassle absorbers, not hassle creators.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Republicans lost control of the narrative because they never held the Democrats accountable for their betrayal.

My responsibility as a "revolutionary" was to hurt the United States.

Free will makes us the authors of our own choices, our own sins, our own fates—not other people, not classes or races or genders.