Doing The Right Thing Quotes - Page 8

• We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Bored, Seductive

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• Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

  Jeff Olson

  Busy, Productive, Being Busy

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• Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Bully, Horrible

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

  Gabrielle Union

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• [If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, Our World, Culture

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, School, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Productivity starts with doing the right things.

  Bill Capodagli

  Right Thing, Productivity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

  Kid Rock

  Children, Talking, People

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• I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.

  Rakim

  Eye, Blessing, Men

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Magic, Going Away

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Planets, Our Planet

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

  Bill Gates

  India, Needs, Taxation

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• Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.

  James M Strock

  Believe, Hard Times, People

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• Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  Samantha Morton

  Book, Self, People

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• Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

  Sara Parkin

  Future, Mean, People

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• Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Caring, Support, Healthy

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• True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Happiness, Knowing, Joy

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• Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help the environment, I do it. Eventually, it just becomes second nature. If we all begin to learn from one another and share some of the things we do, we just might be able to affect the world for the better through these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness: doing the right thing without being told to or having to think why.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Thinking, Everyday, Environmental

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• There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Support, Risk, Secret

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• It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

  Michael Pollan

  Italian, Might, Subtraction

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

  Daniel Handler

  Integrity, Simple, World

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