Contribution Quotes

Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

Even breathing is a contribution.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

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

I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

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.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

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.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

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

To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution that's personal to you.

[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.

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