Quotes about responsibility
responsibility grandparent chinese
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. Erica Jong
responsibility writing thinking
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
responsibility government people
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step. Eric Cantor
responsibility guy gone
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in. Eric Clapton
responsibility should-have worried
I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready. Emma Bonino
responsibility support minorities
I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.
responsibility fighting artist
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there. Emily Saliers
responsibility stories compelling
As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. Jay Asher
responsibility brain fit
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe. Jason Silva
responsibility people around-the-world
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility. Jason Mraz
responsibility government two
Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would have been a better choice to have had two separate email accounts. And I've also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible. Hillary Clinton
responsibility thinking united-states
I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on [Bashar] Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
responsibility years campaigns
We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.
responsibility contests primaries
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.
responsibility men thinking
I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.
responsibility people giving
The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.
responsibility thinking roles
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
responsibility home balance
We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.
responsibility thinking community
I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.
responsibility common-humanity avenging
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
responsibility opportunity trying
I've been privileged to see the presidency up close. And I know the awesome responsibility of protecting America and the incredible opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you.
responsibility opportunity voice
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
responsibility sacrifice emotional
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. F. Scott Fitzgerald
responsibility decision valleys
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. Evgeny Morozov
responsibility kansas interesting
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn
responsibility trying medical-profession
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. Jack Kevorkian
responsibility cities water
Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts. J. D. Hayworth
responsibility ability craving
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
responsibility abuse dodge
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic -- or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power. Irving Kristol
responsibility cake worry
When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything. Indra Nooyi
responsibility ideas choices
Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
responsibility exercise emotional
I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities. Harrison Ford
responsibility thinking president
He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted. Glenn Greenwald