When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

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"Great creativity begins with tolerance."

- Yo-Yo Ma

Creativity

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."

- Yo-Yo Ma

Creativity

"Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience."

- Yo-Yo Ma

Connection to Earth

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks."

- Yo-Yo Ma

Ambition

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"We have raised the bar. … But that doesn’t raise it just for the youth. That raises it for the parents, who have the primary responsibility for teaching their children principles. That raises it for the leaders. That raises it for the teachers. We’ve all got to take a step up in a world that is unraveling as fast as this one is."

- President M. Russell Ballard

Responsibility

"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."

- Unknown

Responsibility

"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn’t it be arrogant to die before you’ve repaid that debt?"

- Yuuji Kazami

Responsibility

"You can’t win a game by doing nothing. And if someone else wins it for you then you haven’t accomplished anything. Life is the same way."

- Junichirou Kagami

Responsibility

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

Responsibility