Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 15

• If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Crazy, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

  Richard Branson

  Responsibility, Asking Questions, Ideas

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

  Paula Broadwell

  Mistake, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites and prods us to make responsible choices, to take responsibility for the choices that we have made... It was always like that, and our holy scripture grows over the centuries, gets thicker and thicker, with more texts around, which need/have to be looked into, referred to, considered.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Responsibility, Choices, Focus

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Responsibility, Thinking, Unity

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

  Shannon Woodward

  Responsibility, Parent, Mind

  "Shannon Woodward Lives the Good Life on The Riches". Interview with G.J. Donnelly, www.tvguide.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.

  Ashley Judd

  Children, Home, Character

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• Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, People, India

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• We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Mistake

  "Willow Creek Repents?". www.christianitytoday.com. October 2007.

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• My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Past

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Leslie Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

  Henry Cloud

  Mean, Responsibility, Heart

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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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• 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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