Quotes About Responsibility

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

As a point guard, you don't really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.