Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.

  Richard Moss

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

  Richard Moss “Inside-Out Healing”, Hay House, Inc

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• Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Children, Responsibility

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• We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Self

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.21, Penguin

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• The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Player, Needs

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• There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

  Harry Reid

  Responsibility, White, House

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• The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps

  Yevgeny Primakov

  Responsibility, Overcoming, Half

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• Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Responsibility, Thinking, Self

  "CNN'S Amanpour", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2012.

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• If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner.

  Harriet Lerner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

  Christi Paul

  Responsibility, Giving, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.

  William J. Clinton

  Morning, Children, Responsibility

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• We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Government

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Space, Giving

  Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

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• To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

  Laurence Gartel

  Responsibility, Artist, Destiny

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• Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

  Carl Johan Calleman

  Responsibility, Knowledge, Understanding

  Carl Johan Calleman (2004). “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

  Terry Francona

  Responsibility, Cutting, Going Away

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• Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.

  Andy Kennedy

  Responsibility, Safety, Risk

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• People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Responsibility

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• I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

  Kenneth Lay

  Responsibility, Economy, Happened

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