Right Thing Quotes - Page 36

• With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next.

  Marv Wolfman

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• You need to hire and develop great people. You need to set the vision and trust them to do the right thing. You need to let go of control. That's wonderful for all involved because you're empowering and trusting your people to do what's right for the brand.

  Frances Allen

  Letting Go, People, Empowering

  "The CMO.com Interview: Frances Allen, Chief Brand Officer, Denny’s". Interview with Giselle Abramovich, www.foxbusiness.com. March 4, 2016.

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• You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Thinking, Want

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• What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Book, Clothes

  "Patagonia clothing founder ponders politics, saving Earth". Interview with Amanda Griscom Little, www.nbcnews.com. October 28, 2004.

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• Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."

  William McDonough

  Jobs, Business, Practice

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

  William McDonough

  Business, Mean, Effectiveness

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

  Thomas Jones

  Successful, Men, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• There is nobody who is good or bad, it's just not like that. They all are complex individuals. They all see the world in their own way that makes complete sense to them. Nobody goes around feeling that they're evil - they think that they're doing the right thing. And so that seems to have something really important, big, and deep to say about human beings.

  Dave McKean

  Thinking, Evil, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

  Christina Aguilera

  Eye, Criticism, Stranger

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk THE VOICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Character, People

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• I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

  Jack Nicholson

  Confused, Believe, People

  Source: cinema.com

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• Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, "I kind of prefer that." I could go back to writing that and probably make more people happy, but it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do. I don't want to take the lazy route.

  Herbert

  Writing, People, Lazy

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Independent, Giving, Doe

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President [Barack] Obama's policies towards global warming is on the one hand he says the right things and he says he's committed to trying to reduce our current emissions.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Hands, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Worry, Important

  "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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• The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million, 60 million people voted to endorse the toxic parts of Donald Trump, that suddenly we now are in a country, you know, surrounded by people who, you know, are proud to be, you know, a part of this alt-right thing and they think it was an alt-right takeover.

  Van Jones

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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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• Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Care, Today, Tomorrow

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

  Usher

  Character, Artist, Doe

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Judging, Trying, Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Matter, Doing The Right Thing

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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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• In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Order, Leader

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I know that Congress will do the right thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Congress, Knows

  "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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