Contribution Quotes

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

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.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.