But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
