Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 14

• Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

  Lara Logan

  Mistake, Responsibility, Likes

  Source: deadline.com

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• To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

  Bruce Lee

  Responsibility, Action, Good And Bad

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• With our intimate partners, we can take responsibility for the parts of ourselves that are hardest to deal with - because we finally know ourselves well enough to do so.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Responsibility, Enough, Intimate

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Enlightenment, Demand

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• If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

  Huston Smith

  Responsibility, Yield, People

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• According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature.  If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it?  Who would take responsibility for the world?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Responsibility, Buddhism, Agency

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.280, Penguin

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• When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.

  Robert Kegan

  Responsibility, Needs, Firsts

  Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.

  Lisa Maffia

  Children, Lying, Responsibility

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• The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

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• It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

  Peter Block

  Responsibility, Problem, Misuse

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Baseball, Children, Responsibility

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• Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

  Timothy Leary

  Life, Beautiful, Responsibility

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.102, Ronin Publishing

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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Running, Mistake

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

  Richard Marshall

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

  Samantha Power

  Mistake, Responsibility

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• In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Needs, Helpful

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Responsibility, Life Is

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

  George W. Bush

  Responsibility, Decision, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Responsibility

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

  Yehuda Berg

  Responsibility, Race, Years

  "We All Have Oil on Our Hands" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

  Noah Baumbach

  Responsibility, Years, Adults

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• To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

  Mason Cooley

  Responsibility, Leaving Me, Persons

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• We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

  Seth

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Income

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