Irresponsible People Quotes

“You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.”
― Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

“If you ask what the 10 greatest tragedies of the world are, I would say that one of them is to suffer the punishment for the irresponsibility of others without any involvement in that irresponsibility, that is to say, to have to pay the bill for the incompetent minds of others!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Irrespective, he blames other people for all of those things, including forgetting his passport. I guess that's what it's like to live in a bubble, like Mark does. But a bubble implies flimsy transparency, a diaphanous space where you can see a normal life just beyond your grasp. And what Mark inhabits is more like a thick opaque dome, a murky fortress that separates him from the rest of the world. When you have so many other people doing things for you professionally and personally, you stop taking responsibility for any of it. Max Weber said that dealing with unintended consequences of your actions is what political responsibility is. This guy can't even take responsibility for leaving his passport at home, let alone influencing the US election.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“It upset him to see my family spend so much money and watch me rescue them. He didn't like bailing my mom out of the consequences of her impulsive buying decisions and encouraged me to help her set up a budget instead”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder