Contributing Quotes - Page 6

• Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.

  Greg Meyer

  Mistake, Bigs, Retiring

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• The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.

  Herbert Croly

  Religious, Men, Democracy

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• My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Time, Children, Helping Others

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• Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Offering, Oxygen, Empires

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• Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet nestled in the provident silence of space. The ethical question is whether this is contributing to authentic human development and helping individuals and peoples to be true to their transcendent destiny.

  John Foley

  Faith, Inspiration, Destiny

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• Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.

  Christie Hefner

  Gun, Years, Weather

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• Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Morning, White, House

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• Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Business, People

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, People, Entrepreneur

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Pride, Men

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

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• You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

  Walter Annenberg

  Benefits, Satisfied

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• But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiring, Fun, Offering

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Play, People

  "Calling on the Private Sector: It’s Time to Play a Role" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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• If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Stay Strong

  "Can we find more than revenge?" by Deepak Chopra, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

  Logan Lerman

  Want, Film, Being Famous

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• I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

  Jude Law

  Thinking, Feelings, Film

  "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Guilt, Blame

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• I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Stupidity, Style, Needs

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962), 1960.

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• But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Blessed, World, Feels

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. February 7, 2013.

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• After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Senior, Citizens, Way

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• When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

  Tom Cruise

  Successful, People, Type

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• Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Children, Years, People

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• Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

  Dave Barry

  Falling In Love, Zero Gravity, Percent

  "Problems Of Utmost Gravity" by Dave Barry, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 15, 1998.

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