I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
What's so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake, and they will forgive you if you just a good person and doing right.
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.
I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'
A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
