I’m probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I’m part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.
We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
I want to make sure I do the right thing for society.
As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.
A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.
Coming back to Guess is so natural for me; they’re my family. I always love being back, and to be able to come home and be in Malibu across the street from my high school shooting this campaign is absolutely amazing and just feels like the right thing.
Don’t overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.
Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.
If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.
I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it’s the right thing to do.
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.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do 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.
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I’m sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they’ll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.
Ultimately, at the end of it, it’s just trying to get into that space where you feel like you’re hitting the right thing and you’re making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.
Everyone has obstacles, and you’re not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I generally read everything about me. Based on my army experience, I think it’s the right thing to do. Saddam Hussein didn’t read his reviews and thought he was winning the war.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
I did the ‘right’ thing and got a corporate job on Wall Street. That did not last long. I felt like I was throwing all my years of hard work and relationship-building down the toilet. I eventually quit, went and bought a camera, and built a website. That was the birth of KarenCivil.com.
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.
When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it’s much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.
Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.
As an artist, you’re very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Am I making the right music?’
That’s what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.
I also believe that it’s the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
To eat chicken that was raised with antibiotics is safe, right? But long-term, relying on antibiotics as part of our livestock production is probably not the right thing to do. To not serve chicken means that there’s not an economic engine that’s making it possible to build up a supply of antibiotic-free meat.
Repatriating the Ram HD is the right thing to do… it should never have been moved to Mexico. This was owed to the U.S. government – and the taxpayers.
Most entrepreneurs are very gut driven – they have to be because the odds and data are often stacked against them. If your gut says something is the right thing to do, then do it.
It’s always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It’s not like, ‘Let’s have a confetti gun!’ If I ever have one of those, it will be because it’s absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can’t just go get a confetti gun.
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
I like that Ben & Jerry’s is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren’t always safe – but are the right thing to do.
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Politics isn’t just about doing the right thing. It’s also about winning.
As an actor, you’re trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you’re working with.
There is that definition of leadership that says, ‘Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t have done because you’ve made them believe it’s the right thing to do.’ And a great speech can do that.
I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we’re doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren’t going well.
I haven’t pursued it as a senator because I know it’s like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it’s the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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?’
We’d been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don’t think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don’t have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.
We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society.
It’s a question of finding the right thing, if I’m going to be an actor… if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.
I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn’t get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it’s not the right thing to do. You’ve got to stay true to your family.
I’ve had people say, ‘Oh you’ve made whistleblowing cool.’ But it’s really not. It’s a good thing to do. And it’s the right thing to do. But it’s arduous and difficult, particularly if you are going up against something that’s really powerful and political.
