Contribution Quotes - Page 10

• The key to a great life lies in shifting your focus from accumulation to contribution. The old saying "He who gathers the most toys wins" needs to be replaced with "He who serves the most prospers". Remember, happiness is the by-product of a life spent adding value to other people's lives.

  Robin Sharma

  Lying, Winning, Keys

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• So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  People, World, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

  Richard Thaler

  Saving, Firsts, Employee

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

  Lauren Bacall

  Personality, Way, Actresses

  "From the archives: Screen legend Lauren Bacall expressed a desire to leave her past behind her in 1995 interview with The Vancouver Sun". The Vancouver Sun Interview, www.vancouversun.com. 1995.

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• Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

  Max Anders

  Moving, Common Sense, Done

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• What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Winning, Order

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• Dr. Maggie DiNome was given the Duke Award for her tireless efforts and stellar contributions to the eradication of cancer. But unfortunately my weight seems much more important to some of you. While I will admit the dress didn't photograph as well as it did in my kitchen, I will also admit I felt very pretty. In fact, I feel beautiful.

  Pink

  Beautiful, Cancer, Awards

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• Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

  Earl Nightingale

  Rewards, Determined, Service To Others

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• The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Philosophy, War

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• Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

  John Ralston Saul

  Order, Government, Silence

  "On Equilibrium". Book by John Ralston Saul, 2001.

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• If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say "it is a 401(k) world." Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wall, Mean, Cutting

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• You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

  Mother Teresa

  Earth, Resources

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• Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.

  Richard G. Scott

  Average, Growth, World

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• His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Teaching, Discovery, Champion

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

  Denis Waitley

  Understanding, Challenges, Growth

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• There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teacher, Taught, Reason Why

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.155, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Culture, Jazz

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• The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

  Duke Ellington

  Musician, Problem, Made

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• [Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see.

  Diane Keaton

  Strong, Choices, Decision

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• I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  People, Giving, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I also thought the music was a huge contribution, in terms of creating the scale of that. And, I was impressed with just how natural and fluid the world looks. The world is so artificial and it requires so much work to make all the different pieces add up together, but when it comes together, it just looks effortless. It's amazing.

  James Frain

  Creating, Together, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

  Goapele

  Impact, Would Be, World

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?

  Amy Arbus

  Mother, Photography, Trying

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• I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

  Wilma Rudolph

  America, Champion, Would Be

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