One of the things that is great about this country is that we’re a meritocracy. Aspirational, hard-working people who want to come here – and who have the talent and skills to contribute to our economy and society – are very welcome.
I’ve been able to contribute to a lot of winning teams in my lifetime. It just comes from my mindset. I’ve not focused on me individually; it’s what the team needs.
In being aware of others’ hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the ’80s, and I’d look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking ‘Whoever designed this and built this did not want it to look like this.’ So, I used to visualize one day being able to contribute and build in Harlem.
It’s important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you’re thinking about is when you’ll get the opportunity to speak – and stressing about whether you’ll sound smart – you won’t be fully engaged in the conversation.
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard’s quality and not detract from it.
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.
I don’t know how far, I don’t know where I’m going to be or where I’m going to go, but I know this – if a team comes to grab me, I know they’re going to get a special player, and I’m ready to show them what I can do and make sure I can contribute.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.
I wish to contribute more to south Indian music, especially Tamil music.
I just want to do well and contribute in any way I can for my team whenever I get the chance to perform.
I’m lucky to have acted during a great era, and I was able to get a lot of love overseas, and I’m happy that I was able to contribute to hallyu in my own way.
Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.
To properly fund the NHS, we must ALL chip in. As a fully paid U.K. tax resident since 1985, I’d be proud to contribute to that.
The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ’s, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don’t think it’s a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
There’s always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There’s also those who say, ‘I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.’ They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.
There’s a shift to mobile apps; I’d like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
OK, Wayne Rooney is always the center of attention, and I always have to answer questions about him. But Wayne is Wayne, and he will always contribute in a game.
Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.
I want to be able to give the best of myself to the team and contribute with my team-mates to winning more titles.
When both women and men contribute to a country’s economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone – perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers’ bottom lines.
Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.
Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.
I don’t want to be a guy that’s just out there to be out there; I want to play and contribute.
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don’t want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who’ve made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.
Nobody wins or loses a match; it’s the team that wins or loses. You have to be looking to contribute towards the team goal.
There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive in the family, even though it was poor and working class, to do something important, to contribute something to Irish culture. He certainly achieved that in a spectacular way.
There are good reasons to push for more Indigenous Labor MPs, not just on equity but also for what they can contribute to Labor.
If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.
We all know just bowling won’t do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.
When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it’s you who decides what to contribute.
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, ‘You waited for your father to die; why couldn’t you have waited for me to die?’ I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
We will never, ever weaken our resolve to be tough on the worst offenders. But we will responsibly take steps to assist our friends and neighbors who deserve a second chance to contribute to our society.
Even when you’ve made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
