Aphorisms of Fazil Iskander. Quotes and sayings by Fazil Iskander about everything in the world Real responsibility can be personal a person blushes
(Excerpt from the book “Self-instructor for spiritual development” by Alexander KAZAKEVICH)
Popular Azerbaijani writer Elchin Safarli said: “When you don’t expect anything from anyone, help comes like a miracle, but if you count on others, it’s a complete disappointment.”
On the occasion of a large harvest, the residents of one village decided to organize a general celebration. It was decided to place a large barrel in the center of the village and fill it with vodka. And the residents themselves had to fill it: from each yard - a bucket of vodka.
When the barrel was filled, people sat down at tables filled with varied and tasty food, and the village head ordered everyone to pour a large cup of vodka - the same one from the barrel. After the first toast, which was made by the headman, people, raising their full glasses, began to clink glasses and say thanks and congratulations in honor of each other. However, the general joyful hum suddenly ended abruptly - as soon as the first glasses were drained. The glasses contained not vodka, but... pure water!
And everyone suddenly blushed and lowered their eyes. The fact is that everyone hoped to cheat a little and brought a bucket of ordinary water instead of vodka, believing that no one would notice his bucket of water compared to a hundred buckets of others’ vodka...
"The Ringelmann Effect". This is the name in psychology for a paradoxical phenomenon that is well known to many businessmen and sports coaches. Its essence is as follows: the larger the group, the less everyone contributes to the common cause.
The French scientist Max Ringelmann, who discovered this effect, conducted several experiments back in 1927 with individual and group lifting weights. The scientist found that “if the productivity of one person is taken as 100%, then two people will lift not twice as much weight, but only 93% of the weight they lifted individually. The efficiency of a group of three people is already 85%, and of eight people - about 49%.”
Rigelman decided to test the identified “effect” using another experiment - tug of war. The result was the same. The larger the group size, the less effort each member made.
Conclusion: the more people share common responsibility, the less everyone contributes. Why? Because with shared responsibility, the degree of personal responsibility for the result sharply decreases, since a person says to himself: if the demand is general and not personal, if they demand an account not from me personally, but from the team (that is, from everyone), then why tear out your veins? , why “sweat” more? After all, “shared” responsibility means no one’s responsibility.
The end result of collective responsibility will always be inferior to the result of personal responsibility. Now do you understand, reader, why, for example, Soviet cars, televisions, tape recorders, vacuum cleaners and other industrial products never withstood competition with similar products from highly developed foreign countries - Germany, Japan, England? I am not talking about the advantage of capitalism over socialism, but about the advantage of individual responsibility over collective responsibility, which, unfortunately, the Soviet leaders did not want to take into account. After all, it’s all about the amount of human attention, which creates quality. Where everyone should be attentive (read - responsible), there is no quality - “seven nannies have a child without an eye.” But where one (or everyone) must be attentive, there is quality.
“True responsibility can only be personal. A man blushes alone,” said Fazil Iskander. Just as national happiness is made up of the happiness of individual people, so the overall success of any state, any production, creative or sports team depends on the motivation and responsibility of each individual person. Collective responsibility is high only when it is supported by high individual responsibility. And the latter depends on the level of spiritual development and consciousness of a person. That is why any human society, in order to progress and develop, must care primarily not about scientific, economic or technical indicators, but about the spiritual and moral education and development of man. If a person is spiritual and moral, that means he will be responsible. And where people are responsible for themselves and for each other, there is human happiness, there is real progress, there is life almost like in Paradise...
Once, one of the journalists asked the famous French singer Edith Piaf what, in her opinion, was the main secret of her success. Piaf thought for a moment and then replied: “Probably my secret is that I don’t sing for everyone - I sing for everyone.”
Responsibility is a characteristic feature of a mature personality. If a person commits actions, but is not going to answer for their consequences, does not give an account of his actions, it is difficult to call him a worthy person and it is better not to deal with him.
We are constantly faced with the need to make choices, fulfill responsibilities, assignments, and interact with people around us. At the same time, we are guided by our moral framework and sense of responsibility.
It is this feeling that prevents a person from making rash decisions, not fulfilling obligations, or leaving loved ones without support. This is a kind of internal controller of our actions.
In society, preference is given to people who are able to answer for the consequences of their actions. They are, as a rule, more reliable, sensibly assess their strengths, and conscientiously fulfill their duties.
That is why in each of us, from childhood, parents, school, institute, and environment instill a sense of responsibility. Irresponsible, indifferent, selfish behavior is met with severe public censure and leads to the severance of social ties. This makes a person's life much more difficult.
At the same time, responsibility is not given to everyone from birth. This feeling is formed and maintained independently, similar to the cultivation of willpower. That is, a person needs to make moral efforts, follow certain guidelines in order to prevent irresponsible behavior and corresponding negative consequences.
It turns out that if a person has the opportunity to share his responsibility with someone else or even shift it to someone else, then his internal control weakens and one cannot expect him to have a conscious attitude towards his actions. He begins to be guided solely by his own interests and becomes indifferent to the possibility of adverse consequences precisely from his actions or inaction.
Source: Essay Real responsibility can only be personal
Fazil Iskander, a Russian and Abkhazian writer and poet, wrote: “True responsibility can only be personal. A person blushes alone.”
This statement is a statement that a person is responsible for his actions. I agree with the author’s opinion that responsibility for one’s actions can only be personal.
Let's start with the fact that responsibility is an important personality trait and society strives to cultivate this quality in a person. A sense of personal responsibility is the willingness to pay in deeds or money for what you are responsible for. A vision of one’s responsibility (sometimes a feeling of the gravity of the need) to do this or that, to be responsible for this or that.
What is responsibility? Responsibility is a person’s ability to adequately answer for what is entrusted to him or for what he has taken upon himself. If a person said he would do it and did it, he is a responsible person. But an irresponsible person cannot be entrusted with important matters and tasks. Irresponsibility (lack of a responsible attitude to life) is a personal position that implies a lack of tasks and obligations, unwillingness and inability to be responsible for the consequences of one’s own actions, and unpreparedness for the surprises of adult life. Unfortunately, not all people are responsible and this is very bad!
For example, N. Dobrolyubov, in his work “A Ray of Light in the Dark Kingdom,” wrote how, in a military operation near Pervomaisk, soldiers who were repelling an attack by militants rushed to a box of grenades. But when they opened it, they saw that the grenades had no fuses. The packer at the factory forgot to put them in, and without them, a grenade is just a piece of iron. The soldiers, suffering heavy losses, were forced to retreat, and the militants broke through. The mistake of an irresponsible person turned into a terrible disaster.
A striking example of irresponsibility from life is the sinking of the Titanic. The main reason for the shipwreck was the careless attitude of people towards their obligations, so the engineers of this ship used strong steel plating during construction, but at the same time fastened the sheets with low-quality rivets, they also decided that a couple of boats would be enough. And all this influenced the course of events, but not for the better.
Thus, we can conclude that irresponsibility is manifested in a reluctance to participate in important processes and make decisions in difficult situations. Such a negative character trait must be fought, otherwise there will be no stability in the world.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE IS RESPONSIBILITY
When we decide to take responsibility, we stop wasting time blaming time, people and circumstances...
Lack of responsibility is the most important problem of our time
We discussed this topic a little in the last article, “Fear of Making a Mistake,” where we talked about how the fear of making a mistake prevents you from revealing the full potential of an individual in your life. A person who has a fear of making a mistake is like a beautiful rose bud, which, in fear that it will somehow arrange its petals incorrectly, decides to remain just a bud...
This problem - fear of making a mistake, or rather, fear of taking responsibility for your life into your own hands - the main reason for the deplorable situation of modern society, in which everyone is waiting for someone to come and change something. But you need to start with yourself...
You are responsible for who you are. Don't shift responsibility to someone else, otherwise you will never be free from suffering.
No matter how hard and painful it is: it is you and only you who are responsible for everything that happens, has happened, and will happen to you.
Thus, willingness is important for change. take responsibility for everything what you do in your life: anger, joy, bad or good, hell and heaven. When you understand that it is you who are the cause of what is happening to you, when this responsibility is realized and accepted, your thoughts begin to change. Be open to new opportunities!
Why are successful people responsible?
It is better to take responsibility yourself than to be assigned a duty or duty later: “A sense of duty is imposed, while a person takes on a sense of responsibility himself.”, moreover, it has been noted that a person truly becomes a person only at the moment of making a decision, and it requires responsibility.
It is by taking responsibility for something that a person truly becomes free: “This is the greatest secret of human existence. Being an individual is difficult; being free means taking on a burden.”
“Freedom is not permissiveness, but responsibility. And if you are not responsible for yourself, someone will certainly begin to answer for you, and this will mean slavery.”- Osho
“We need to accustom our consciousness to the unity of life, to the unity of the Cosmos. From here should be born a feeling of great responsibility for every thought, word, and action. Cause and effect operate incessantly and indefinitely. Precisely, unity must be understood in cosmic scope.”- N. Roerich
“True responsibility can only be personal. The man blushes alone". - F. Iskander
By taking responsibility for his life, a person, in addition to freedom, also gains efficiency in the use of his resources: “When we decide to take responsibility, we stop wasting time, blaming time, people and circumstances, that is, what is not has something to do with us." Simply put, we begin to make the most of every opportunity to achieve our plans.
Those. responsibility provides unique opportunities and resources for a person, turning even a weak and unsuccessful person into a successful one: he took responsibility - now it is his conscious duty, he must do it, and that’s all... It has happened more than once in history that the weak transformed the world, courageously and honestly fulfilling their duty when the strong no longer had enough strength to do so.
“It is impossible to take a single step on this Earth without coming into contact with responsibility and duty that must be fulfilled.”- T. Carlyle
It is important to note that responsibility in success is, first of all, respect. And respect, first of all, for parents and elders: “No matter what a person does, his deeds, even the most outstanding, are worthless if he does not fulfill his duty to his parents.”
No one is able to assign a responsibility to a person that he does not feel himself, so everything depends on the consciousness of the person himself.
As long as a person’s consciousness remains the same, nothing will change. The same applies to entire countries - until the inhabitants of the country change their consciousness and concept of life, the country will continue to move along the old path, regardless of any external changes...
Writers leave, but their words, books, biographies remain. Last night, the famous Soviet and Russian prose writer and poet Fazil Iskander died in Moscow at the age of 87, but his words and books remain. This post contains a selection of the writer’s statements on various topics:
If you can’t cut the chains, don’t give a damn about them, maybe they’ll rust.
Having admired the mirage, I missed the oasis.
The paradox of education is that those who do not need education respond well to education.
Are you petrified by rudeness? Well done, it means you still believe in the person!
A rabbit processed by a boa constrictor turns into a boa constrictor. This means that boas are rabbits at the highest stage of their development. In other words, we are the former them, and they are the future us.
Where they talk a lot about victories, they have either forgotten the truth or are hiding from it.
While we are playing with evil, this is not yet perfect evil, our stupid consciousness tells us, but in fact it is already perfect evil, because, playing with evil, we have lost the holy disgust that nature has endowed us with. That is why traitors are always paid in advance and always paid so shamefully little!
Pointless work turns a person into a bureaucrat.
There are times when people mistake collective stink for unity of spirit.
Inspiration is a state of obsession with truth.
All Russia is a drinking Hamlet.
Leaders are the same people as us, only much better.
The soul that has committed betrayal perceives any surprise as the beginning of retribution.
If you can't break your chains, spit on them until they rust.
An ideologized person, with all his ambition, ceases to be a person exactly to the extent that he is ideologized.
Ideology rests on scarcity, and scarcity rests on ideology.
The beak of ideology always hits the nail on the head of fellow citizens, and never hits the grain of truth.
The sea is a great reconciliator.
Wisdom is intelligence infused with conscience.
The people cannot and should not live by a distant goal, because a distant goal always serves as an excuse for immediate fraud.
Real responsibility can only be personal. The man blushes alone.
Nationalism is when a pig, instead of scratching itself against a fence, scratches itself against another pig.
Those incapable of love are prone to sentimentality in the same way as those incapable of brotherhood are prone to familiarity.
The paradox of education is that those who do not need education respond well to education.
(“Human Parking”, 1990)
Progress, friends, is when they still kill, but they no longer cut off ears. (“Sandro from Chegem”, 1989)
The plan was simple: break the door lock, eat all the sausages in the buffet, take all the change from the cash register and hide.
(story “My idol”)
The Soviet psycho is the most normal in the world.
What could be more humiliating for a betrayer than the knowledge that they failed to take advantage of his betrayal.
-...to master good humor, you need to reach extreme pessimism, look into the dark abyss, make sure that there is nothing there, and slowly return back. The trail left by this return journey will be the real humor. (story “The Beginning”)
A sense of humor is the understanding of life that appears in a person who has approached the edge of a bottomless abyss, cautiously looked in and quietly walked back.
Enthusiasm cannot spur a person for long. There are natural rhythms in all work. Violation of them for a relatively long time leads to stress and depression.
Modern fiction has been led by women writing detective stories. This is not serious. They behave with readers as with husbands: it is more important for them not to understand him, but to create his mood.
Stupidity is not ridiculed in order to destroy stupidity - it is ineradicable. This is done in order to maintain the spirit of the intelligent.
What I value most in women is shyness. It is beautiful. The basis of femininity is not appearance, but an increased sense of shame and sympathy for others.
Some women become tender when sick. A few days later they suddenly start screaming from the bed. ABOUT! So they are getting better!
The art of entertainment has always been there, but it must have its place. The rise of the entertainment industry is evidence of a misunderstood freedom.
When you are very close to your own death, the thought that you have worked all your life is calming.
1. “Growing up doesn't have to mean getting married or having kids or taking out a mortgage. Growing up means learning to feel responsible for others—and enjoying what that responsibility can bring.” Gwen Cooper "Homer's Odyssey"
2. “True responsibility can only be personal. The man blushes alone.” Fazil Iskander “Human Station”
3. “Responsibility is a test of a person’s courage.” Horatio Nelson
4. “When we decide to take responsibility, we stop wasting time blaming time, people and circumstances, that is, what has nothing to do with us.” Louise Hay
5. “Cowardice always seeks to shift responsibility to someone else.” Julio Cortazar
6. “Every person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.” Fedor Dostoevsky
7. “At last I understood why the Lord, in His love, created people responsible for each other and endowed them with the virtue of hope. For this is how all people became messengers of one God, and in the hands of every person is the salvation of all.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
8. “Instead of boldly admitting the existing disorder, tragedy, crime, everyone strives to prove his innocence and find an alibi that allows him to avoid responsibility for the consequences of his own actions.” Albert Einstein
9. “The more freedom, the more responsibility. An ever-present ancient paradox.” Timothy Leary
10. “The dropped load of responsibility never falls to the ground, it falls softly on the shoulders of others.” Already folk wisdom
11. “Responsibility is like clothing - you can take it off completely, but somehow it’s not comfortable in front of people.” Already folk wisdom
12. “We are responsible for those who have not been taught to answer.” Katherine Price
13. “All responsibility for everything that happens to a person must be placed on oneself, and not on fate, on God, on the location of the stars and on God knows who or what. Today what we created yesterday is happening to us, tomorrow will be what we created today.” Vladimir Lermontov “The Power of a Singing Heart”
14. “Making a choice can sometimes be incredibly difficult, but not impossible. To say that you had no choice is to absolve yourself of all responsibility.” Patrick Ness "Chaos War"
15. “The greater the sense of responsibility, the less the thirst for power.” Stefan Garczynski
16. “Strikingly, it is forgiveness, not guilt, that increases responsibility.” Kelly McGonigal "Willpower"
17. “No serious responsibility can be placed on people whose actions depend to such an extent on their mood.” Stefan Zweig "Impatience of the Heart"
18. “Responsibility is a test of a person’s courage.” Horatio Nelson
19. “Power is duty; freedom is responsibility." Yanina Ipohorskaya
20. “You are free, which means you are seriously responsible for yourself.” Jason Statham
21. “You cannot lose heart just because the hope of shifting responsibility to someone else has not materialized.” Mary Stewart "And Nine Coaches Await Thee"
22. “You are always responsible for what you did not try to prevent. Jean-Paul Sartre
23. “We ourselves determine the direction of the wind. There is nothing more important than accepting responsibility for steps not yet taken.” Elchin Safarli “If you knew...”
24. “A man truly becomes a man when he accepts full responsibility - whoever he is, he is responsible for it.” Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) “Courage. The joy of living at risk"
25. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” Winston Churchill
26. “To bear responsibility, it is not enough to have strong shoulders and arms, you need intelligence.” Harry Simanovich
27. “Most people don’t really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.” Sigmund Freud
28. “Man must rediscover in his soul the deepest meaning of responsibility to the world, which means responsibility to something higher than man himself.” Vaclav Havel
29. “Being human means taking on some responsibility, and not just filling space.” John Steinbeck "East of Eden"
30. “Freedom means responsibility. That's why most people are afraid of freedom." George Bernard Shaw
31. “Habit.” Here's the problem. All you need is to be conscious of your choices and responsible for your actions.” From the film “Peaceful Warrior”
32. “But how to learn to bear responsibility? You have to live in the world, make your own decisions, make your own mistakes.” From the film And in my soul I’m dancing (Inside I’m Dancing)
33. “Every person is the author of his own life. What goes around comes around. One thing is obvious to me: responsibility for everything that happens to you lies only with you - regardless of whether you agree with what is happening or not.” Robert Downey (Jr.)
34. “A person can curse his childhood as much as he wants, endlessly reproach his parents for all his misfortunes, weaknesses and vices, blame them for the harsh trials of life, but, ultimately, he himself is responsible for his destiny and becomes what he wanted to become " Mark Levy "Those words we didn't say to each other"
35. “Too much freedom is dangerous for those who cannot cope with the responsibilities that accompany independence.” Anton Szandor LaVey "The Devil's Notebook"
36. “In order to become free, it is enough to become aware of yourself.” Clifford Simak
37. “Responsibility and freedom constitute the spiritual sphere of man.” Victor Frankl
38. “The day when you fully take responsibility for your own future and stop looking for excuses for doubts will be the day you begin to move to the top.” O. J. Simpson
39. “Responsibility lies with the individual himself, and not with “historical events.” Wilhelm Reich
40. “The word “accident” was invented to avoid responsibility.” Erian Schultz
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