Contribution Quotes · Page 13

Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming…

— Denis Waitley

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of…

— Jeffrey Tucker

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws…

— Al Gore

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in…

— Henry George

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

— LaVell Edwards

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— William J. Clinton

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an…

— Anonymous

In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the…

— Eric Foner

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to…

— Howard Shore

As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace…

— Stephen Covey

When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but…

— Hilary Kornblith

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without…

— Norman Mailer

There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live,…

— Stephen Covey

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes…

— Steven Weinberg

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,…

— Evelyn Underhill

Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this…

— Thomas Friedman

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen…

— Carl Rogers

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of…

— Mark Twain

Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave.…

— Alex Ferguson

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals…

— Michael Myers

The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of…

— John C. Maxwell

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

— Morris Graves

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make…

— Caitlin Moran

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration…

— Hamid Karzai

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

— Adam Gilchrist

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one…

— Seth Godin

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you…

— Mother Teresa

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

— Jerome Kern

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half…

— Michelle Obama

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner…

— Eva Hesse

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

— Dave Grohl

The valid point or a valuable contribution of a deserving person has not been truly appreciated if he is respected equally with…

— Anuj

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

— Ina May Gaskin

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

— Tessa Jowell

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

— Kenny Cunningham