Quotation Explorer - 'Contribution'

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. - Dylan Thomas
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. - C.S. Lewis
Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000). - Rachel E. Goldsmith
We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference; one of the ways we might do this is through our contribution to communities . - Sameh Elsayed
Life is not only for consumption but for contribution. - Debasish Mridha
You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God. - Eileen Anglin
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. - Deepak Chopra
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution. - Capies Pitts
Your greatest contribution in this world is not what you have but who you are. - Debasish Mridha
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp
A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well! - Mehmet Murat ildan
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. - Ambrose Bierce
Great ambition without contribution is without significance. The Emperor's Club - Steve William Laible
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson
Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong. - Wangari Maathai
Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people! - Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher. - Dudley Flood
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. - W. Edwards Deming
Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? - William Hundert - The Emperors Club
We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is.... together it adds up and great things get accomplished. - Mark W. Boyer
You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding. - Yovanny Alfonso
Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution. - Debasish Mridha
The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. - Ashly Lorenzana
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. - John C. Maxwell
You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God. - Eileen Anglin
Another great contribution to science of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly. - Infallible Imam (A) (www.alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=721)
Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution. - Debasish Mridha
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own. - Alan Cohen
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. - H. L. Mencken
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Always think about how you can contribute and never think of how you can receive a contribution. - Debasish Mridha
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. - Aung San Suu Kyi
SUCCESS IS NOT SECURED WITH RELIANCE ON EACH OTHER, BUT SUM OF THE TINY CONTRIBUTION OF EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM - Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh
It takes time to earn trust and it takes time to learn to be open enough to work in at team in an effective way so that every contribution is "valuable" regardless of your personal opinion. - Auliq Ice
To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself. - Frank Crane
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