Quotes About Responsibility

It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child

and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mineshafts into her and drag out her entrails—and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finger. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger?

Problems do not queue up outside a statesman's door, waiting to be solved in an orderly fashion, chapter by chapter, as the books would have us believe; instead they crowd in en masse, demanding attention.

It is in the nature of things that not all politicians can achieve greatness.

Do you honestly think we would have left something so important to the Italians?

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

I know that I am free because I alone am responsible for everything that I do.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible.

Soldier, shut up and Soldier

But if you really believe that your neighbors must have laws for their own good, why shouldn't you pay for it?

If you are a boss, ask yourself: When you look back at how you've treated followers, peers, and superiors, in their eyes, will you have earned the right to be proud of yourself? Or will they believe that you ought to be ashamed of yourself and embarrassed by how you have trampled on others' dignity day after day?

A huge body of research—hundreds of studies—shows that when people are put in positions of power, they start talking more, taking what they want for themselves, ignoring what other people say or want, ignoring how less powerful people react to their behavior, acting more rudely, and generally treating any situation or person as a means for satisfying their own needs—and that being put in positions of power blinds them to the fact that they are acting like jerks.

The best management is sometimes less management or no management at all. William Coyne, who led 3M's Research and Development efforts for over a decade, believed a big part of his job was to leave his people alone and protect them from other curious executives. As he put it: 'After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly. If leaders are the problem, we ask those being served by leaders to let them know or go up the chain of command—without the threat of retaliation." "Store

the impulse to "get even" can provoke a vicious circle of attack and counterattack—where each side views the other as evil and won't accept responsibility for fueling the conflict, and

Didn't Cause it, can't Cure it, can't Control it.

Transitions Needed • Learn to accept responsibility for your behaviors. • Learn appropriate ways to handle or release ager. • Learn how to communicate directly. • Learn alternative ways to handle stress.

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the modern physician may have become, he or she is still supposed to be a healer — and one responsible to a tradition of healing, which all cultures revere and depend upon.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Take what you want, and pay for it.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.