Contribution Quotes

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

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

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

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

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

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

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

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

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

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

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

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

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

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.