#responsible

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #attach #body #cells #death

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#come #contractors #correctly #doing #done

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#any #areas #by the time #department #every

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#classes #criminal #good #good citizens #government

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ↗

— Alexander Berkman

#blind obedience #brutish #callousness #destruction #irresponsible

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#nine #ninety-nine #owners #people #percent

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#being #editorials #i #intimate #just

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#being #director #editor #film #other

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#authority #bottleneck #creates #develop #few