Contributing Quotes - Page 9

• In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

  Tom Gross

  Successful, Safety, Flying

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, Work, Greatness

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• A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

  Ted Koppel

  New York, Pages, Fields

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• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Humanity, Meaning Of Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Mother, Teacher, Economy

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• When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Effort

  "Justice and fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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• If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Sports, Ice, Ifs And

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• When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Feelings, Tests

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• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  Thomas Sowell

  Powerful, Political, Advice

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.8, Basic Books

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• China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Development, World, Common

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• No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Team, People

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• I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Country, Reading

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Political, Chinese

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• People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Needs, Evolution

  Greg Graffin, Steve Olson (2010). “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Determination, Party

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• Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funeral, Littles, Woods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.70, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

  Tony Blair

  Order, People, Population

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Artist, Essence

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• The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

  Virginia Henderson

  Recovery, Unique, Nurse

  Virginia Henderson (1991). “The Nature of Nursing: A Definition and Its Implications for Practice, Research, and Education : Reflections After 25 Years”, ABRAMS

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• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let's try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Art, Strong, Real

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• Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

  Christopher Flavin

  Oil, Impact, Fuel

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• This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

  Benjamin Zander

  Jobs, People, Important

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