Sharing Credit Quotes

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off. ~ Rush Limbaugh

If you want to solve a big problem, you need to go from taking credit, to sharing credit, to multiplying credit. The systems that all work, multiply credit. Multiplying credit is just another way of making everyone in the system feel ownership. And the byproduct is both resilience and propulsion. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest. ~ Tim Gunn

We shouldn't teach history the way we do. We ought to teach that, however humble a person's position, anyone who does his or her duty is just as deserving of the American people's honor as a king upon a throne. We do not teach this way, though. We are always giving the generals the credit, even though they did little of the fighting. ~ Reet Tine

After ten whole minutes of painful silence, I finally raised my hand and told Mr. O'Hara I loved Miranda Blythe's romance novels, and I decided I liked him immediately when he didn't laugh or reassure me that we'd be reading real books. Like Mrs. Andrews had last year.
He did say, 'I'm afraid Ms. Blythe is not on the curriculum this semester. We'll be starting your education with the epic poets - boring, I know, but necessary building blocks. However, an extra-credit book report is always welcome, and you're free to choose whatever topic you like.'
Then Mr. O'Hara added, 'I think Ms. Blythe's works would be a particularly interesting topic for a report. In fact, if you want an example of the archetypal hero journey - '
'Wait, wait, wait.' Fred raised his hand. 'You read romance novels?'
'My dear boy,' Mr. O'Hara replied, 'I read everything. ~ Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time. ~ John Scalzi

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea. ~ Max Carver

Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing - if only they have a will and begin. ~ Gustav Landauer

Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign. ~ Bill Maher

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power. ~ Major Owens

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity. ~ Ron Brackin

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ~ Bertrand Russell

Someone in my country made a comment along the lines that solutions are always possible if you are willing to let someone else take the credit. ~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.

On Sharing
I'm sorry, but if your brother doesn't want you to play with his shit, then you can't play with it. It's his shit. If he wants to be an asshole and not share, then that's his right. You always have the right to be an asshole - you just shouldn't use that right very often. ~ Justin Halpern

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them. ~ Pico Iyer

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell. ~ Stephenie Meyer

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got. ~ Ken Follett

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. ~ Suzanne Farrell

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it. ~ Mario Cuomo

Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad. ~ Lydia Millet

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity. ~ Josef Pieper

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target
you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things. ~ Osho

Sharing is equated with being a decent person. That may fit for adults but it is far from fitting for young children. Misunderstanding what sharing is and how your child learns about it over time gets in the way of healthy social development. This is especially true if share means giving up what they have and need. People who feel deprived or in need of something do not feel generous, especially when they are two, three, four, or five. ~ Tovah P. Klein

Notwithstanding the extravagance of some of their characters, these nineteenth-century novelists describe a world in which inequality was to a certain extent necessary: if there had not been a sufficiently wealthy minority, no one would have been able to worry about anything other than survival. This view of inequality deserves credit for not describing itself as meritocratic, if nothing else. In a sense, a minority was chosen to live on behalf of everyone else, but no one tried to pretend that this minority was more meritorious or virtuous than the rest. … Modern meritocratic society, especially in the United States, is much harder on the losers, because it seeks to justify domination on the ground of justice, virtue, and merit, to say nothing of the insufficient productivity of those at the bottom. ~ Thomas Piketty

(It was also helpful that the hotel's owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests was better than one with no guests at all.) ~ Maureen Johnson

We're sharing a bed, Vince. I'd say we're a skooch past uncomfortable already, knowi'msayin?" "... ~ Ben Monopoli

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds. ~ George Washington

It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt quoted by Edelman ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is
mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering
what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you
a hint ... it has to do with creating and sharing. ~ Bill Hicks

Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could laugh at himself. You see a lot less of that. ~ Katherine Applegate

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success? ~ Gina Barreca