Be Good Quotes - Page 32

• I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Together, Culture

  Source: wineskins.org

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• What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness; it should make you a happier person.

  Sharon Gannon

  Should, Persons

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• Think good, speak good, and be good.

  Inbar Lavi

  Thinking, Speak

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

  Chuck Grassley

  Exercise, Keys, Judging

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

  Amanda Palmer

  Perfect, Judgment, Good Enough

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

  Daphne Oz

  Acceptance, Self, People

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

  Michael Franti

  People, Feel Good, Good Things

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• As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

  Chris Sharma

  Land, Needs, Care

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• When I was younger I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

  Usain Bolt

  Country, Winning, Focus

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Emotional, Compassion

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• I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Yoga, Giving, Want

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Thinking, Enjoy, Ifs

  "Reality TV Star and Author Bethenny Frankel: On Love, Life, and Yoga". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.awaken.com. February 3, 2016.

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• People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't think they should be against the NFL because the NFL, those are two big games. I don't think it would be good for the NFL and I don't think it would be good for the debates.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Games, Nfl

  "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". Interview with Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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• I have a couple of what I call "buttons" - fears or anxieties that when tweaked can cause me to be vulnerable. Fear of failure, not being good enough, and abandonment are my main buttons. However, they have diminished greatly over the years as I have really confronted those fears in order to work through them.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Couple, Years, Order

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• One thing I do know is that we are fortunate to be here and we're here to try and better ourselves and to be good.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Trying, Knows, Fortunate

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• For me, I have to go out and people have to already like me for my promo to be good.

  Daniel Bryan

  People, Like Me

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever.

  David Cross

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

  Fred Foster

  Stars, Lazy, Designer

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• It is important to stop being critical and judging ideas as good or bad because I think if somebody doesn't have a lot of experience you worry their idea is going to be bad, it's not going to be good enough, if not going to be active enough and so you can start to think critically about people's suggestions or what they bring to it but once you get out of that and think whatever they come up with is the right thing right now and so I'm just going to build on it just makes everything so much easier and better.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Perspective, Germany, Would Be

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Mean, Self

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• A lot in the faith-based community, a lot of fundamentalist groups are - are now saying, you know, the Earth is the lord and the fullness there of, and we have an obligation to be good stewards of the planet.

  Al Gore

  Community, Earth, Groups

  Interview with Andrea Mitchell, www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• I call it extreme vetting right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough, and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme.

  Donald Trump

  Want, Tough, Fine

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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