Duty quotes - page 30
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
K.P. Yohannan
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
Howard Schultz
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype
Eva Mendes
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.
Richard Hornby
There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
Gerald R. Ford
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.
Theodore Levitt
Incantations for Muggles:
The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.
danah boyd
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.
Mark Driscoll
When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
Bob Dole
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
Toni Cade Bambara
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".
Brittany Snow
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig
I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?
Wilbur L. Creech
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
