“Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both athletic and philosophical, was created in Japan. It is based on respect for the partner and for our elders as our teachers, which is very important and makes a strong, positive contribution to human relationships, and not only in sports. I am happy that life brought me to this wonderful sport as a child. It is like my first love.” FirstsHumansChildrenLongHas BeensImportantCultureStrongSportsTeacherWonderfulLong TimePhilosophicalPartnersMake SenseContributionJapanFirst LoveEldersAthleticHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsJudoJapanese Culture Author:Vladimir Putin
“I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.” GivingTryingAmountContributionRequestVaryPersonal Time Author:LaVell Edwards
“We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.” MadeFightingForceTrainingGratefulIncludingIraqLocalsGermanyContributionProvidingNatoAircraftDeployment Author:Barack Obama
“Ever since Germany was able to regain its unity, it is in an even stronger position to give its contribution to upholding this order to which we feel committed and for which particularly people in the German Democratic Republic stood out there on the streets to keep this up, to maintain this order.” PeopleGivingFeelsAbleOrderStreetsPositionStrongerDemocraticUnityCommittedGermanyContributionRepublicDemocratic Republic Author:Angela Merkel
“I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.” WorldMadeWarBigsLyingOrderFeltEuropeCriticismAffairIraqStupidityContraryCirclesRecognitionWar Of The WorldsArroganceContributionAlsWorld War IiRegimesWorld War IInvolvementAl QaedaWorld OrderOutragedBlatant Lies Author:Seamus Heaney
“If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.” IfsShouldLessonsConcernScientistIncludingContribution Author:Noam Chomsky
“One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.” PeopleShouldImportantMatterUnderstandingClearLimitsScientistExpertsContributionExplicit Author:Noam Chomsky
“Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.” ThinkingKindMadeImportantPoliticalSpeakSocialRaceClassRelationAskingVariousGenderAnalysisAssumptionContributionCategoriesFormationIntersectionalityImportant Contributions Author:Judith Butler
“I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.” IfsSchoolLevelsBuildingSeriousRegretSouthUniversityContributionSouth Africa Author:Thabo Mbeki
“What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on the Continent that the location of the Pan African Parliament must add to its credibility. And, so we said, fine, it's a contribution to this process of the democratisation of the African Continent.” Has BeensSaidProcessFineMovedAddSouthContributionContinentsSouth AfricaLocationParliamentCredibilityAfrican ContinentKeenness Author:Thabo Mbeki
“We don't have a choice. A united democratic Eurasian continent welded together by common economic interests is our only hope and contribution to stability in the world. If we fail, I fear that Russia in its present form is in for the most serious of upheavals - the outcome of which is extremely unpredictable.” IfsWorldTogetherFormChoicesInterestUnitedCommonFailingEconomicSeriousDemocraticRussiaOutcomesContributionStabilityContinentsUnpredictableUpheaval Author:Garry Kasparov
“You can use the tax code to make people smoke less. You can use the tax code to make 'em smoke more. You can use the tax code to make 'em buy beer or buy less beer, more booze or less booze. You can screw the tax code around to make 'em make more charitable contributions. You think they're going to get rid of this power? Ain't no way, fool.” PeopleThinkingWayUseFoolTaxesSmokeBeerCodeContributionEmsScrewsCharitableBooze Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.” NeedsLongKnownEnvironmentRiskStudentsCreatingLong TimeSafetyMeetingsContributionBelongingClassroomSecond PlaceEncourage Students Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to be lauded as the "author" of the Declaration of Independence.” FeltIndependenceContributionDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceTomas Jefferson Author:Gordon S. Wood
“[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."” IdeasPoliticalDivineTheoryContributionPolitical TheoryMontesquieuConstitutionalism Author:Gordon S. Wood
“There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why every dictator gets rid of the artists first. They burn the books and execute the artists first. Then they get on with whatever else they're interested in. Art might do something. It's dangerous.” WorldFirstsArtBookMightArtistPowerfulDangerousArt IsContributionDictatorVery Powerful Author:Toni Morrison
“I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).” ThinkingKindSocialChristianityStudyBackgroundsPursueContributionStarksSocial SciencePosing Author:Larry Hurtado
“The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.” InterestBehaviorDistanceNuclearContributionFascinatingRelativeGenesNurtureNuclear Families Author:John Medina
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we're not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.” NeedsShouldImportantBlackCommunityIssuesTakenStartingObsessedContributionImportant IssuesBlack CommunityPersonal Attacks Author:Michael C Dawson
“The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions.” WorldMadeImportantWarRealityFightingMilitaryWillingInvolvedImportant ThingsOperationsWar Of The WorldsContributionAfghanistanWorld War IiWorld War IOffensiveKoreaBalkansMilitary OperationsCanadian History Author:Chris Alexander
“I think many times young women do not give sufficient weight to the unique contribution that they can bring to any discussion or any cause. And they have within them something very special, and they should count all of their experiences as a plus.” ThinkingGivingShouldYoungCausesSpecialUniqueWeightDiscussionSufficientContributionPlusYoung Women Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.” EconomyIssuesMissingContributionOur SocietyLinksChildcare Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I believe that we won't get the fullest contribution from women, they won't be able to reach their fullest aspirations, until we take a completely different look at how we make healthcare more affordable, higher quality, with better access to many more women.” BelieveLooksDifferentAbleI BelieveQualityHigherAccessAspirationContributionHealthcareAffordableDifferent Looks Author:Nancy Pelosi
“It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say it's a new alternative, at least. I think my personal contribution over the last 25 years has really been to give a lot of young entrepreneurs a lot of hope: Acer can, they can. Stan can, they can.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsImportantLastsYoungBreakApproachEntrepreneurMy WayAlternativesNot SureContributionConventionalBreak ThroughYoung Entrepreneurs Author:Stan Shih
“International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.” ImportantTogetherChanceAnswersGreaterProgramRootsInnovationUniversityInternationalVariousLocalsExpertsAgencyContributionWorking TogetherOwnershipAssistanceStakeholderImportant Contributions Author:Ruth Simmons
“Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.” WayShouldSaidIdeasPrinciplesPracticeRevolutionVictoryLateFundamentalsChineseContributionConcreteSixtyPointingMarxismChairmanMaoFundamental PrinciplesChairman MaoMarxism LeninismChinese Revolution Author:Deng Xiaoping
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.” ThinkingShouldMadePastMistakeLaysGood ThingsChinaObjectivesPrimariesContributionExplainingChairmanMaoPast MistakesAssessingChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the human contribution. That is, the scientific image of the world, like any other, is indelibly shaped by our interests, practices and prejudices.” WorldHumansInterestPracticeClaimsPrejudicePhysicsContributionWeedObjections Author:David E. Cooper
“I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.” ThinkingMadeBookSeemsSexContribution Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.” IfsWantEnergyProcessLevelsProgressMovementKeysPoliticianAreasTradeUnionsInternationalContributionAppropriateCivil SocietyTrade UnionsStakeholder Author:Mary Robinson
“Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.” AmericaCenturyMusic IsWesternContribution20th CenturyWestern Music Author:Steve Erickson
“With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the paradox that distills America, is that this greatest of American contributions to humanity, this American contribution that probably has influenced more people around the world for the good, that probably has brought more people around the world unqualified joy, was born of America's greatest evil, slavery. Or one of the two great evils anyway, counting the European extinction of those who were on the continent first.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsTwoAmericaJoyHumanityEvilBornCenturyMusic IsSlaveryWesternAround The WorldContributionExceptionParadoxContinents20th CenturyExtinctionCountingUnqualifiedWestern Music Author:Steve Erickson
“My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.” FeelsWellsHumanityMy OwnShareSpecialWell BeingContributionSomething Special Author:Dalai Lama
“As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.” EndsArtistContributionStorytellerBeacons Author:Eric Heisserer
“The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.” PeopleNeedsShouldWholeWould BeValuesWealthAcceptingClassModernFairsRelationPrioritiesSatisfiedCommunismContributionCapabilityAspireMarxismMonetaryModern SocietyContribution To Society Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.” PeopleWayYearsChildrenEndsMotherLostNationsUnitedRolesAchieveSecurityDecidedIndependenceSouthWesternContributionResolutionSouth AfricaIgnoredUnited NationsCubaMournCubanBeing IgnoredAngolaNamibia Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“With the Cuban presence in Namibia it was possible to achieve the security and real freedom of that country and the end of Apartheid in South Africa, with the modest contribution of the international military presence in Africa.” RealEndsCountryAchieveSecurityMilitarySouthInternationalContributionSouth AfricaModestApartheidCubanReal FreedomMilitary PresenceNamibia Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.” PeopleThinkingLittlesInterestBuildingPerspectiveModelsIdealsDemocraticPhilosopherGreekContributionLatinCubaCubanBuilding UpLatin American Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.” ThinkingWorldFirstsDreamAgeCertainAsksTermChildhoodThirdsGravesReformYour ChildrenContributionNow And ThenAdulthoodFulfilledGlamourChildhood Dreams Author:Bette Midler
“We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a whole set of legislators. Look at the vast sums that the NRA spends on getting all legislators to be soft on gun control. Legislators find it hard to refuse the NRA's largess when they need contributions to their political campaign wherever they can get them.” NeedsLooksHardWholePoliticalIndividualGroupsInfluenceLimitsGunRefuseCampaignsContributionGun ControlLegislatorsNraPolitical Campaign Author:Philip Kotler
“[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.” WayNeedsPlayerProducersContributionComposerPublishersTrumpets Author:Jon Gordon
“There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution that's personal to you.” WayDifferentAnd LoveDifferent WaysContributionMusic And Love Author:Jon Gordon
“The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.” AmericaValuesNamesSpeakCommonDutyCitizensIslamContributionContradictionConsistencyReconcileSpeaks OutAmerican SocietyFuture Of America Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.” BelieveMadeAbleI BelieveGenerationsPoliticianMajorsAreasIraqContributionBlair Author:Kofi Annan
“I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.” PeopleFeelsKindUseRecognitionContributionValidation Author:Jerry Pinkney
“You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible.” IfsCultureResponsibilityAcceptingWatchesEnvironmentConcernedResponsibleConservativeExcuseContributionNo Excuses Author:Martin Sheen