#responsibility

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #deciding #important #important things #initiative

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#european #model #obliterate #personal #personal responsibility

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#been #death #enforcing #execute #gave

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#football #get #good #handle #i

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

#am #army #attack #country #get

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#effectively #efficiently #limited #limited resources #make

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#faith #family #hard #hard work #important

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american #american people #been #caused #clean