Quotes of: Responsiveness Keyword

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

Valerie Jarrett

Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsib...

Gabrielle Union

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own s...

Ethics

Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We are distractible, weak, and given to our own concerns....

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

If you are reading this Libellus, you are a Dreamer, whether you have recognized this or not. Being a Dreamer carries responsibility, one most people are not willing to accept. Responsibility implies that one cannot blame another person for their act...

Immortal Memories: Volume I

That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don’t call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world… I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct...

Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watchin...

2001: A Space Odyssey

Responsibility: Seeing something you don’t want to see. Not seeing something you do want to see. Hearing something you don’t want to hear. Not hearing something you do want to hear. Saying something you don’t want to say. Not saying something y...

Love

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscie...

Collected Prose

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

I sent a quick text to Adrian: I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: So typical of him. he wrote back. I didn’t dignify that with a response.

The Indigo Spell

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Book of Leadership: The 12.5 Strengths of Responsible, Reliable, Remarkable Leaders That Create Results, Rewards, and Resilience

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

ou nous ne sommes pas libres et Dieu tout-puissant est responsable du mal. Ou nous sommes libres et responsables mais Dieu n'est pas tout-puissant. Toutes les subtilités d'écoles n'ont rien ajouté ni soustrait au tranchant de ce paradoxe.

The Myth of Sisyphus

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.

The Little Prince

The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.

Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse