#responsibility

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#every #how #improvement #inventory #lives

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. ↗

— William Petersen

#audience #fifty #fifty percent #give #i

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#be careful #behave #careful #carry #ever

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#coerce #derives #knowledge #others #power

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#increasingly #protect #responsibility #science #scientists

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. ↗

— Max de Pree

#between #define #first #last #leader

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#born #economic #end #energy #even

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#anyone #artist #been #else #given

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#arrangements #common #concern #delegate #entity