Quotes of: Doing-the-right-thing Keyword

Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if we say to our hearts, 'don't jump about'; if we carry ourselves like heroes...

Peter Pan in Scarlet

Experience is like evidence. When you're young and don't have much experience yet, you don't have much basis for confidence. All you really have is hope, and that can get shaken pretty easily. But as years go by, you start to gather this evidence. Yo...

Ten Girls to Watch

One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in human...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTS I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself. II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justify...

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills...

The Right To Ignore The State

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

Corcitura

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

Antony Gormley

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

King Henry VI, Part 2

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Voice of Reason

I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Shellen Lubin

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Mickey Mantle

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

Bebe Neuwirth

I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

Holly Madison

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

Joan Jett

The one thing I do like is lotion and moisture on my hands and face. I love to have my face moisturized. I like different ones. I like Natura Bisse.

Lil' Kim

I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

Derek Waters

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Bill Gates

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

Charles Grodin

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Bill Bryson