Quotes About Responsibility

They will care about our business only to the extent that we care about their overall welfare.

Stewarship responsibility.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. — BILL GRAHAM, EVANGELIST DO YOU REMEMBER DOILIES?

Remixing Our Metaphors We're not a cancer or a disease. We are organisms doing what all organisms do, surviving and reproducing as best we can. We are, however, a kind of organism that has never existed before, and we've gotten ourselves in a situation. Fortunately, we may be equipped to get ourselves out of it. A plague does not think. A cancer does not decide to change course. A weed does not weed itself. We could.

woman who claimed to want only the best for me, and yet she gave birth to me!

Do you know when childhood ends?" my father once asked me after one of my rants about Nina. "Do you know when people really start to mature? When they can accept that their parents have a right to their own psychology.

E' una legge non scritta: chi vuole starmi vicino deve assumersi la responsabilità della mia anima.

Send meeting materials in advance

Reconfirm scheduled events before they happen. Announce changes to scheduled or committed dates as soon as they change. Intimacy

McDonald's likes to describe professionals that serve them (such as advertising agencies) as having "ketchup in their veins.

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

It is poppycock to think that it is necessary to resort to laws to make America greater by banning comic books... This is a matter for the home, the school, the church, and other family influences - not the legislatures.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

Anybody is a damn fool if he actually seeks to be President," he told friends. "You give up four of the very best years of your life. Lord knows it's a sacrifice. Some people think there is a lot of power and glory attached to the job. On the contrary the very workings of a democratic system see to it that the job has very little power.

Oppenheimer had, in his own mind at least, exaggerated his role in the making of the atomic bomb and, correspondingly, exaggerated his guilt, seeing himself as, in the Bhagavad-Gita, Death the destroyer of worlds. Von Neumann agreed. "Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin," von Neumann liked to tell Ulam.

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

Events," wrote George Ball, paraphrasing Emerson "are in the saddle, and ride mankind.

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

Up to then there had been something of a gentleman's agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the Kennedy Administration was one of excellence, that it was for good things and against bad things, and that when it did lesser things it was only in self-defense, and in order that it might do other good things.

is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina. "It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.