Responsible Quotes - Page 35

• To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Long, People, Dine

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.16, Vintage

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• Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Profound, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 24, 2015

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• In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Challenges, Earth

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• The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

  Bill Crawford

  People, Brain, Way

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• Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

  Alfie Kohn

  Attitude, Caring, Independence

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Wealthy, Organized, Rulers

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• The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Balls, He Man

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• To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, People, Manage

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• Those who remain silent are responsible.

  Edith Stein

  Silent

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• No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  Bill W.

  Teacher, Heart, Responsibility

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• Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Smart, Intelligent

  "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Action

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• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

  Niles Eldredge

  Reality, Ideas, Knowing

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• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Mary Whitehouse

  Country, Men, Years

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• If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession’s responsibilities.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Responsibility, Community, Challenges

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• Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

  William Vickrey

  Jobs, Employment, Hours

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• A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

  Jack Valenti

  Quality, Doe, Use

  "A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry's Competitive Energy". Jack Valenti's speech as MPAA Chairman and CEO before The Senate Judiciary Committee, September 20, 1995.

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• The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

  William Ewart Napier

  Moving, Eight, Dollars

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• For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

  Jack Beal

  Art, Years, Today

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• In actual
  fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible
  to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the
  blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual.
  Loss is public and social.

  Gaetano Salvemini

  Loss, Pay, Facts

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• Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

  Margaret Visser

  Breastfeeding, Satisfaction, Bread

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

  Allan Massie

  Action, Circumstances, Response

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

  Brooke Fraser

  Deeds

  Song: Albertine, Album: Albertine, 2006

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• The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought to have more decorum and sense. She has for many years criticised Prince Charles for being a distant, undemonstrative father. In the long run he's been the more responsible parent and certainly inflicted less damage, anguish and hurt.

  Lynda Lee-Potter

  Mother, Running, Hurt

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• I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

  Milos Forman

  Stupid, Fall, Dumb

  "For Lenin, read Lennon", www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2000.

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