Contribution Quotes

• When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Actors

• I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

  

  William Mapother
  • Responsibility
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Effort
  • Contribution

• There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Unique
  • Differences
  • Lines

• Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Remember
  • Development
  • Relation

• Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.

  

  Azran Osman Rani
  • Success
  • Difference
  • Contribution

• Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

  

  Andrew Schneider
  • Whole
  • Contribution
  • Weaknesses

• It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?

  

  Amy Arbus
  • Mother
  • Photography
  • Contribution

• The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

  

  William F. Nolan
  • Important
  • Literature
  • Excellence

• I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

  

  Kareem Mortimer
  • Country
  • Ourselves
  • Examine

• Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices
  • Influence
  • Found

• Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

  

  Amber Naslund
  • Watching
  • Contribution
  • Match

• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Strong

• Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Long
  • Jobs
  • Motivational

• Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Unique
  • Contribution
  • Urgent

• It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

  

  Carlos Machado
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Born

• I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Africa
  • Contribution

• Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Country
  • Responsibility
  • Values

• I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

  

  Judy Chicago
  • History
  • Artist
  • Contribution

• Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.

  

  Nicholas Johnson
  • Pay
  • Taxes
  • Families

• No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Contribution

• If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

  

  William K. Black
  • Political
  • Powerful
  • Bankers

• When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Writing
  • Testimony
  • Competence

• Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Science
  • Space
  • Hero

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