Responsible Quotes - Page 15

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

I feel responsible for everybody, and I couldn't imagine a scenario where I wouldn't be directing what was happening, at the end.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.