A good poem is a contribution to reality.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

— Vernon Johns

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

— William James

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a…

— Dave Grohl

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

— Alexander Cockburn

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is…

— Alex Ferguson

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and…

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— William F. Nolan

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may…

— Jonathon Porritt

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

— Margaret Cho

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

— Judith Martin

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

— Peter Drucker

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,…

— Thomas Sowell