Thomas Sowell Quotes

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Thomas Sowell

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• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
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• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Wall

• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Peace

• For students in Iowa, I think it sends the wrong message. I think it undermines our credibility when in one area we have the authority to set standards, we have such a minimum that is, in my opinion, embarrassing.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Opinion
  • Students
  • Iowa

• No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Perfect
  • Unity

• The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Responsibility
  • Behavior
  • Consequence