Quotes About Responsibility

If your customer willingly and knowingly doesn't care about certain important things that your customer's customer cares about—as happens from time to time—consider stepping away from the project.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations. Studies of software projects show over two-thirds of them either are outright failures or deliver unsuccessfully (deadline slip, budget overruns, or low customer satisfaction). Many of the root causes point to improper decisions software architects made, or failures of follow-through on the right architectural decisions.

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it. Someone is.

The Pringle servants often expressed concern for their masters and mistresses.

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I'm reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, "I am protecting the rain forest." But as his thought evolved, he realized, "I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

The notion that James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights so that racists and sociopaths and madmen could slaughter innocent men, women, and children with assault weapons or handguns is one of the most contemptible notions that an irresponsible minority has ever crammed down the throats of its potential victims.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Life is not yours to take.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

Of all, clockmakers and morticians should bear the keenest sense of priority - their lives daily spent in observance of the unflagging procession of time...and the end thereof.

Pour que le mal triomphe, il suffit que les gens bien ne fassent rien.