Being Responsible Quotes - Page 7

• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

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• It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

  John Travolta

  People, Decision, Responsible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Ears, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Challenges, Aging

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• The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

  Stella Adler

  Achievement, Training, Actors

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• I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Divorce, Gay, Might

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

  Frank Gehry

  Responsibility, Way, Responsible

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• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Men, Hardship

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, Kids, Fighting

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Caring, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.

  Karl Hess

  Song, Responsibility, Light

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• John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman. Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132, 1985.

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

  Richard Linklater

  Responsibility, People, Social Hierarchy

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• The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.

  Drew Carey

  Christian, Country, Fun

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• Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Intelligent, Demand, Spirit

  Bernard J. F. Lonergan (1990). “Method in Theology”, p.268, University of Toronto Press

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• Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

  Kevin Leman

  Wall, Remember You, Remembers You

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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• So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

  George Soros

  People, Leader, Needs

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, PBS, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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• I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The number one lesson I received from my father is to be responsible for yourself and your family. The responsibility you embrace is working, paying the bills, and coming home EACH night, just as a start.

  Tony Gaskins

  Father, Responsibility, Home

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

  Michael Cera

  People, Support, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Matter, Responsible

  "This Is What 80 Looks Like". Interview with Gail Collins, www.nytimes.com. March 22, 2014.

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• The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Art, Responsible, Ifs

  Source: slushpile.net

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