It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit. . . He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.
In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.
You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.
True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their deeds. And my parents taught me through the stories of their lives. And I don't take any credit for the things that they did or the things that they experienced, but they made a great impression on me.
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money. . . And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I dont really expect any credit for going in that direction. Its the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people dont see that as so patently obvious as it should be?
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us. '
You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.
If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.