“A responsible leader is a person who is able to respond spontaneously to situations.”

“A spontaneous proposition deserves a spontaneous response.""
""You gave me a spontaneous response when you said no.”

“Responsibility is the ability to respond.”

“Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young… with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.”

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. I spoke of myself as ‘responsible’ for this group, that was verbal shorthand. The most I can do—or you, or any leader—is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”

“Spontaneity is the privilege of an authentic person.”

“I was understandably deeply disappointed that the highest National Socialist leaders did not stand up and answer for the deeds they had done in the past and left those of us who could not be made personally responsible in the lurch.”

“The responsibility for leaders developing results-based leaders is shared. Current leaders who are senior managers have the ultimate challenge of preparing a next generation of leaders, every one of whom should be more capable than themselves.”