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• I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, Responsibility, Goal

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Moving, Responsibility, Names

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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• I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Responsibility, Vegetarianism, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Responsibility, Waiting

  "‘Be Responsible for Your Own Life,’ Says Oprah". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Commitment, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

  Louis Caldera

  New York, Responsibility, Confusion

  "White House apologizes for low-flying plane" by Mythili Rao, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.

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• People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Given

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• Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Self, Years

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• I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

  Brian Eno

  Responsibility, People, Credit

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Rivers, Whole

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

  Jared Spool

  Team, Responsibility, Weather

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• Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

  Laura Berman

  Responsibility, Waiting, Miracle

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• One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

  Jeanette Jenkins

  Powerful, Responsibility, Choices

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Responsibility

  Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress, twitter.com. July 23, 2015.

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• There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

  James Bovard

  Responsibility, Political, Safe

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.272, Macmillan

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• Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Wrong Things, Doing The Right Thing

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

  Andy Andrews

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Future

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Responsibility, Guarantees That

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• Group Material is itself collaborative, which is non-hierarchical and we don't use the corporate model which is along lines of expertise but we work together and take responsibility as a group for every aspect of the work. And then there's a collaboration or dialogue with those artists and non-artists we work with, in terms of participation in the various projects.

  Julie Ault

  Responsibility, Artist, Together

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• For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Responsibility, Organization, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Responsibility, Air, Justice

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• The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

  Adam Khoo

  Motivational, Responsibility, Take Control

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• I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

  Mitt Romney

  Responsibility, Office, January

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