Anoushka Shankar Quotes

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

I feel a tremendous responsibility to my crew, to my cast, to every guest star that comes on.

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

My honored father will permit the observation that, though I have not heretofore always appreciated, as I ought, the motives and the feelings of a father, I hope I have learned wisdom in that respect; and my highest earthly gratification would be to make easy the downhill of life of those parents to whom I owe all that I am and most that I have.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Is that so? Well, that's the man I will reappoint, for he knows how to do his duty, irrespective of the man or station.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Different as they may be from my parents' generation, today's new Americans still bring with them the same old fashioned family values: discipline, a sense of responsibility, an eagerness to work—to achieve ...

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.