Quotes About Responsibility

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I like it when the captain comes to me and says, 'We're really desperate for a wicket, can you get us one?' or when we really need something to happen in a Test match.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

Despite what some people think, I never asked to leave. I'd just been made captain of Leeds which in my eyes is a big, big deal.

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks!

Despite all my experience of being a player, I've never had the experience of being a manager which is a different concept from being a coach.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

Excuses destroy success every time.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

I've never destroyed someone's career.

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

We, as the Marley family, won't be responsible for destroying the community.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

If the city is safe, the mayor shouldn't have a security detail with him, he should be walking the street by himself.

My nana was a detective; my nana was a great cop. You also have bad cops that were bullied in school or whatever and think that they have power, and that makes other cops look bad.