Contribution Quotes

• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Contribution

• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Government
  • Growth
  • Choking

• What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Persons
  • Careers
  • Possibility

• There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Difference
  • Products
  • Extremely

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

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Science
  • Space
  • Hero

• The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.

  

  Anita Silvey
  • Future
  • Reading
  • Contribution

• There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

  

  Michael McCaul
  • American
  • Sacrifice
  • Argument

• I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Science
  • Contribution
  • Hobby

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

  

  Judy Chicago
  • History
  • Artist
  • Contribution

• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Value
  • Contribution
  • Illusions

• 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

• 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

• 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

• What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

  

  Stephen Schwartz
  • Lives
  • Contentment
  • Contribution

• 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

• Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Money
  • Heaven
  • Contribution

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

  

  Simon Hoggart
  • Politicians
  • Campaign
  • Fed

• Most of the gains in the last years since the Great Recession have gone to the very top. So we are going to have the wealthy pay their fair share. We're going to have corporations make a contribution greater than they are now to America.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Corporations
  • Great Recession

• I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

  

  Eugene Chadbourne
  • Humor
  • Musician
  • Rake

• Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Moral
  • Critics
  • Complaints

• Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Important
  • Humans
  • Legacy

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