I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution — the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

I just enjoy batting, scoring runs, and contributing for my team.

For somebody like me who doesn’t bowl, it’s important to contribute in the field, and I’ve worked hard on that, slip catching.

About wicket-keeping, I have enjoyed whatever little bit I could do and contribute for RCB.

The inability to protect and promote their infant industries, whether due to direct colonial rule or to unequal treaties, was a huge contributing factor to the economic retrogression in Asia and Latin America during this period, when they saw negative per capita income growths (at the rates of -0.1 and -0.04 per cent per year, respectively).

The rich countries also contribute to the brain drain from developing countries by more willingly accepting people with higher skills. These are people who could have contributed more to the development of their own countries than unskilled immigrants, had they remained in their home countries.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

I contribute ideas, sure. Why would I be there if I didn’t?

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

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

The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods.

There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

The scientific community has been screaming out loud. Ninety-nine per cent of the scientific community is in agreement that man is contributing to (climate change).

I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfill their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I’m remembered in a good way.

Stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves; its your responsibility.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Love the earth and sun and animals. Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.