I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, “Your child looks healthy and well cared for.
I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.
Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.