And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
It’s so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
A lot of the things I did – it’s not going to sound anything but egotistical – if I’m lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don’t like that.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Well, everybody’s human, and you’re not going to do the right thing perfectly every time. But you mess up and you learn from it and you go on from there.
San Francisco is a wonderful city, but you do have housing issues. If tech companies don’t do the right thing, they can dislocate a lot of what makes San Francisco special. At Workday, we want to be on the right side of that.
Just try to do the right thing, and that’s immediate karma: ‘I feel good about myself.’
Restoring a person’s ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
I’m a firm believer if you do the right thing, the American people will notice.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it’s clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.
I think it’s always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
I’d been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you’re a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook.
At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they’re not given the information.
We are very proud, wherever we are in the world, to tell you about Canadian values and what we think is the right thing for Canada to do. And when it comes to refugees, we very much believe in welcoming refugees to our country, and that includes Syrian refugees, and that includes Muslim refugees.
Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.
I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they’re dealing with, their set of circumstances, that’s the right thing to do.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that’s another theme that interests me. Because most people don’t intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing – in their mind.
People can say or think whatever they want… so in my reality, it’s kind of irrelevant. I’m always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.
We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
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.
The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it’s the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it’s something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.
It doesn’t make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesn’t work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.
I don’t know what religious people do. I kind of wished I’d been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Do the Right Thing’ was really the first movie I’d seen that not only entertained me – it made me laugh and I felt suspense – but it also really made me examine the world that I lived in.
For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we’ve lost so much in our country.
Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don’t do the right thing.
I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they’re all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.
I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I’m wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
My favorite line to Phil is, ‘You can say the right thing on TV, but why can’t you do it in real life?’
I like to think I’m a good, kind person who does the right thing, but I don’t ever feel sorry for someone who didn’t get the part that I got. Not for one second.
If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that’s the reward right there.
Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.
One of my favorite movie characters is Mother Sister from Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing.’ It is such a beautiful name, and she is such a beautiful character, Mother Sister, the all-seeing eye over the block.
That’s what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.
Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.
Despite all the dysfunction in Washington, I believe that when it comes to helping veterans and keeping our fundamental promises as a country, we can come together and do the right thing.
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where people are having to jump from the last ‘great idea’ to yet another unproven-and-about-to-be-poorly-executed one.
Martin O’Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.
Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
I have great faith that most Americans are law-abiding and care about the rule of law, and if they’re told a weapon is no longer allowed in their community and they would be compensated, they would find a way to do the right thing.
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
