Contribution Quotes

• I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Contribution
  • Government Policy

• You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Marketing
  • Valuable

• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Important
  • Band
  • Organs

• Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Together
  • Moments

• Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Contribution

• I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.

  

  Wes Unseld
  • Team
  • Helping
  • Basketball

• I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Space
  • Suicide
  • Touch

• I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.

  

  Sean Penn
  • People
  • I Think
  • Contribution

• It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

  

  Ethel Percy Andrus
  • Giving
  • Relationship
  • Inspiring

• As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

  

  Eric Heisserer
  • Hope
  • Artist
  • Storyteller

• You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • Positive
  • Consequence
  • Village

• The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

  

  Susan Collins
  • Earth
  • Possible
  • Communicating

• Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Police
  • Citizens
  • Communities

• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Mood
  • Role
  • Jazz

• Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • America
  • Lost
  • Buried

• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Change
  • Jobs
  • Retiring

• Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Connections

• All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Appreciation
  • Contribution
  • Congratulations

• Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Contribution
  • Accumulation

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