Responsibility Quotes - Page 13

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

  Lake Bell

  Tired, Acting, Directors

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Writing, Trying, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Mind, Made, Bigger

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Numbers, Discipline, Leader

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• 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.

  Lynn Nottage

  Artist, Thinking, Light

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Impact, Profound, Mind

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• 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.

  Ang Lee

  Believe, Years, Two

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• 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.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Character

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Yoko Ono

  Order, Two, People

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• 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.

  Chris Bauer

  Team, Love Is, Air

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Decision, Faces, Neighbor

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Differences, Safety, Soldier

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

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

  Pat Summitt

  Successful, Want, Accepting

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.32, Crown Business

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• 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.

  Ida B. Wells

  Goal, African American, Rough Patches

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• 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).

  Christopher Meledandri

  Thinking, Two, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

  Harrison Ford

  Running, Dog, Hero

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.

  Harrison Ford

  Exercise, Emotional, Creating

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• 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.

  Star Parker

  Spiritual, Government, Moral

  Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Selfish, Real, Hard Work

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

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Giving, Way

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• 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.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Easy, Persons, Right Thing

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule for Making Decisions”, p.43, Hachette UK

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