#Role Quotes

“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”

“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”

“A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.”

“The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.”

“To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.”

“No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.”

“Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.”

“A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.”

“I don't want to be a spokesperson.”

“My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.”

“I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.”

“I know how to play my guard spot, ... He can worry about the low post.”

“I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.”

“I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.”

“I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player”

“The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.”

“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.”

“A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.”

“The leader must be an actor.”

“There are few good women who do not tire of their role.”

“General consultant to mankind.”

“The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.”

“I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President”

“I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.”

“Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence”

“Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.”

“In terms of me scoring or providing or dragging defenders, if that's the target, that's what I want to do.”

“The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.”

“If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.”

“I do not want to carry any public position.”

“We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.”

“As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.”