Adam Yauch Quotes

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Every person's every action has an effect.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

I can't say what most people are doing. I can only say what I am doing.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.