Quotes About Responsibility

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.

When you get elected by 86% and you'd been in government as long as I had been, there was a sense I had a pretty good handle on things.

I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

My favorite change is taking traction control away and launch control, because my starts are pretty good, I think, and I make always some places up in the start and I think that will be great if that comes back to the driver's hand.

I think I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That's something I take pride in - being prepared and knowing what each individual guy is responsible for. I can point at guys and let them know what they're doing if they have questions.

I'm a pretty good dad.

When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.

I think the day of retirement will come when I go out there and do everything I was supposed to do and I still can't perform. I'm going out there and I'm a danger to myself, then it stresses your family out.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?'

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.