Best 112 quotes in «contribution quotes» category

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

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

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

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.

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

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

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.