Responsible Quotes - Page 27

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  If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Responsibility, Mirrors

  Ross Perot (1993). “Not for Sale At Any Price: How We Can Save America for Our Children”, Hyperion Books

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• The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral Development, Intellectual, Selfishness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.7, Penguin

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• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  Alexander Payne

  Change, Hollywood Films, Trying

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• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Bears, Witness

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• I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want

  Charlize Theron

  Sorry, Ideas, Order

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• You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Action, Your Dreams

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2014

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• You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Belonging

  "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.

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• We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

  John Paul Caponigro

  World, Way, Photographer

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• I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  "Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence" by Patrick Stewart, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2009.

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• We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

  David Deida

  Emotional, Action, Closure

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• Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do... You are responsible.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Thinking, Worry, Feelings

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• Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Our Actions, Way, Stills

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• Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

  Mark Foley

  School, Catholic, United States

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• Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is found? Therefore open your heart, and open TO your heart, that you may hear its call to reflect, to be meek, and to be responsible.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Lying, Heart, Son

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 29, 2013

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• By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Design, Marketing, Wealth

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• I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

  Johnny Unitas

  Player, Want, Honest

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• Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ideas, Way, Sometimes

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• The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Knowing, Balance

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sacrifice, Past, Legacy

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• If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Needs, Want

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2014

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• You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Daddy, Matter, Mama

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• The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mind, Structure, Form

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

  Joel Osteen

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• Please be responsible for the energy you bring into this space.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Space, Energy, Please

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• If the human isn’t responsible for their role in the horse human relationship, horses just don’t get along very well. So that’s why I say it’s all about the human meeting the bill to fit the horse in any given situation. But don’t expect the horse to always fit the human.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Roles, Bills

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