Quotes About Responsibility

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.