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“If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.”

Ifs Way Giving Together Responsibility Technology Failing Risk Position Protect Tools Valuable Privacy Working Together Sincere Risk It

Author:Tim Cook

“The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.”

Knows Firsts Wells School Responsibility Industry Training Function Assuming Preparation Taking Responsibility Absolutely Nothing

Author:Peter Drucker

“And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Important Stories Order Responsibility Known Novel Taken Connections Sentences Already Taken

Author:John Irving

“The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.”

Process Understanding Responsibility Statistician

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.”

Doe Body Differences Responsibility Accepting Moral Members Safety Soldier Civilians Personal Responsibility

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.”

“Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.”

World Should Heart Self Home Lying Humanity Individual Levels Common Responsibility Planets Survival Overcoming Universal Difficulty Greed Defence Dominion Guise Common Humanity Self Defence

Author:Dalai Lama

“There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.”

Ifs Mind Humans Whole Human Beings Responsibility Imagine Impact Profound Realization Crushed

Author:Adyashanti

“If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility”

Ifs Want Bigs Responsibility Accepting Successful Being Successful Chairs

Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.”

Way Want Wells Stills Age Responsibility Adults Teenager

Author:Elle Fanning

“Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.”

Important Responsibility Filmmaker Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Thomas Tull

“When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.”

Looks Acting Responsibility Too Much Directors Tired Gigs I'm Tired

Author:Lake Bell

“Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.”

People Want Years Believe Kind Two I Believe Effort Responsibility Depth Inspired I Believe In Two Years Filmmaking Follow Me

Author:Ang Lee

“It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.”

World Shows Felt Goal Responsibility African American Rough Patches Follow Through Rough Patches

Author:Ida B. Wells

“Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.”

Wells Children Home Parent Responsibility Educated Taking Responsibility Well Educated

Author:Ernest Istook

“I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.”

“Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.”

Writing Trying Use Responsibility Guides Enormous

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).”

Thinking Two Stories Action Film Levels Responsibility Add Complexity

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.”

Thinking Believe Long Made Moving Next Challenges Levels Responsibility Groups Involved Moving Forward Filmmaker Deadline Next Level

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.”

People Knows World Has Beens Two Order Ability Responsibility Creative Type Likes Establishment No Confidence

Author:Yoko Ono

“The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.”

People Responsibility Likes Establishment

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.”

Mind Made Responsibility Bigger Disappointed Bigger Picture

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I love being a clutch member of the team, but I hope, in the future, I get a little bit more story on my shoulders and a little bit more responsibility to keep the world of a story up in the air. I really, really welcome that challenge.”

World Littles Stories Bits Challenges Love Is Responsibility Air Team Members Little Bit Shoulders Welcome Clutch Up In The Air

Author:Chris Bauer

“Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.”

Source: Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America

“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.”

“To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.”

Faces Decision Responsibility Terrible Oneself Neighbor Spite

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.”

People Way Giving Responsibility Best Way

Author:Ken Blanchard

“As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.”

Thinking Used Artist Responsibility Figures Aspect Good Work Public Figures

Author:Patti Smith

“All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.”

Growth Numbers Responsibility Leader Discipline Understood Personal Growth Great Leader Cultivating

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”

Giving May Doe Self Pain Hurt Love Is Responsibility Giving Up Prepared Oneself Painful Damage Unrequited Love Be Prepared Unrequited Bittersweet Passivity Being Hurt

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.”

Persons Easy Responsibility Right Thing Easy Things

Book:There's No Such Thing as

Source: There's No Such Thing as

“Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.”

Way Children Enjoy Responsibility Generations Seeds Relax Shed Harvest Grandchildren Grandma Realisation Yoke

Book:At Wit's End

Source: At Wit's End

“African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.”

People Needs Running Nations Responsibility Clear Shouting

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.”

Humans Mean Responsibility Our Lives Information Pure Direct Details Preserves Accomplishment Accumulation Simplify

Book:Timesource

Source: Timesource

“It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.”

Helping Social Responsibility Vision Birth Citizens India Clean Social Responsibility Gandhiji

Author:Narendra Modi

“There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.”

Emotion Responsibility Movement Possibility Gains Honestly Contact

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.”

Way Lasts Father Responsibility Son Let Me Shoulders Take Me Let Me Down

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.”

Ifs Persons War Winning Responsibility Plans Clever Clever Person

Book:The Hinge of Fate

Source: The Hinge of Fate

“Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.”

Has Beens Responsibility Greater Talent Resources Blessed Impact Our Time Worldly

Author:John Wooden

“If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?”

Ifs Should Faces Suffering Responsibility Company Risk Sacrifice Management Lays Profit Guilty Employee Recessions Not Guilty

Author:Akio Morita

“Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.”

Age Certain Responsibility Roles Old Age Roles And Responsibilities

Author:Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

“The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.”

Wells Government Fighting Responsibility Support Bears Majors China Aids Primaries Chinese Treatment Providing Delivering Prevention Chinese Government

Author:Bill Gates

“It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.”

Helping Bigs Artist Responsibility Big Responsibility

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.”

People Way Should Whole Dies Process Responsibility Groups Weapons Nuclear Discussion Negotiation Theologian

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.”

People Years Book Shows Reality Girl Given Felt Responsibility Situation Roles Huge

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.”

Ifs Feels Mean Persons Lines Responsibility Practice Democracy Responsible Election Humble Officials Nevertheless Humble Person

Author:Clyde Kluckhohn

“I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.”

Believe Done Form Artist Responsibility Tradition Don't Believe Make Sense Rebellion Rushing

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.”

Order Social Responsibility Moral Duty Married Genuine Realms Corresponding

Book:Redeeming the Time

Source: Redeeming the Time

“In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.”

Mind Looks Ends Hard Action Responsibility Environment Greater Habit Balance Crisis Graves Who We Are Personal Responsibility Habits Of Mind Deteriorating

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.”

Humans Heart Decision Responsibility Compassion Clear Environment Awareness Keys Universal Genuine Human Heart Save The Environment

Book:Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition

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