Quotes About Responsibility

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

I told myself at some point that I've got to hold it down for my family. I can't let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.

I'm a real believer in getting on with the job you have - anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

I never like to conduct, quite honestly, because you have to be a bit of a dictator and it's exhausting.

I'm not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don't know when they're leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

When I'm in San Diego, it's carpools and making dinner and getting the kids to bed. It's real life.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

I would like people to say that Merck continues to be a company that makes a difference in the world.

You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.