Quotes About Responsibility

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

Organize your marketing team in this way: You want someone responsible for "getting found" (filling the top of your funnel), someone responsible for "converting" the folks who are getting pulled in, and someone responsible for "analyzing" the numbers and helping you make better decisions.

We also need to think about the impact on others. When we say hurtful things we don't really mean, we can create deep wounds that can't be healed. Think of all the rifts between friends and within families, divisions that have led to a complete breakdown in the relationship, all because of a single angry outburst.

Saving the forests is not only a question of money," she said. "There also has to be awareness and education.

We should be careful who we blame for our unhappiness when we ourselves have created the causes for our unhappy experiences.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

We'll handle this ourselves." Then the line went dead before Mack could point out that there was a confused army between them and "'handling"' it.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

At some point you'll have to get serious about life.

All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter's ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.

You can't expect people to build their lives around you

She liked to 'leave dishes to soak', an act of self-deception that I've always abhorred.

the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear. Good God, doesn't anyone remember?

and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear.

She didn't feel like an adult. She was in no way prepared. It was as if a fire alarm had gone off in the middle of the night and she was standing on the street with her clothes bundled up in her arms.

To take an analogy from botany, she imagined a child as an unopened flower; a parent had a responsability to provide light and water, but also to stand back and watch. 'He can do anything he wants', she said, 'as long as he's happy and cool.' In contrast, I saw no reason why the flower should not be bracketed to a bamboo stick, pruned, exposed to artificial light; if it made for a stronger, more resilient plant, why not? (pag. 337)

the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear.

Supongo que lo importante es aportar algo –dijo ella–. Cambiar las cosas, vaya. –¿En qué sentido, el de "cambiar el mundo"? –No, todo el mundo no, sólo la pequeña parte que te rodea.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.