It’s human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you’re going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It’s easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.
One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers’ room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.
There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at Chelsea.
If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.
Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things – it doesn’t matter how.
My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn’t around.
You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name – someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.
That’s one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There’s good things about it, and there’s obviously bad things about it.
The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don’t always end good. Things don’t usually end good.
I just try to keep an open mind, and that’s the way a lot of good things happen.
You bring your children onto this earth thinking, ‘Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I’m gonna be good and that they’ll be okay.’ But it’s like, every day we’re worried, ‘Are we gonna be good?’ Things change constantly, so you just gotta push, and you gotta work to the core.
I want to hear good things. I don’t want to hear any negative things about me. It makes me look bad. It makes me feel bad. It makes my family look bad.
I’ve found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.
It is always better to tax bad things than good things.
Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
I know I’ve done good things, I know I’ve done bad things.
Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can’t answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.
I had some terrible times – comparatively speaking. I saddled myself with a load of debt, I wasn’t liked by a lot of my fellow comics and I used to blame other people for me not getting a break. But now I realise I just wasn’t very good. And as soon as I became good, things took off pretty quickly.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.
I don’t focus on negativity, I focus on the good things.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
I love meeting fans. They’re always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
I just need to be myself and allow things to happen. If it’s God’s will, good things will happen.
I can’t say enough good things about Bill Burr.
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
Tony Harrison is definitely not Demetrius Andrade. Yes, he’s probably a prospect and doing good things but everybody sounds good, everybody’s a prospect until you get in there with somebody that knows how to fight.
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can’t be entered into.
It’s good to be progressive, but don’t shun the good things about tradition.
The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on.
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
I get asked sometimes ‘What’s the highlight of my career?’ because I’ve been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in the car and always put on this music. I always fell asleep with this music so it’s good things that I remember.
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
One thing I learned with changes in your life: it happens for a reason, for a good one, because God wouldn’t want anything else for you except good things.
For all who are in love but afraid of the world you must show courage because the world has always taken time to accept all good things.
When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you’ve both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.
We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don’t like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
I feel great. I feel like I’m in my 20s. I did have a lot of injuries, yes, but I feel great now. I think the path that I had did good things to my body and also my mind. I came back very motivated.
It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
I didn’t have a whole lot of role models to say, ‘This much is possible, versus this much.’ So I finally said, ‘I think I’d like to be a mayor. I’d like to pull together a city and help do good things.’
Good things, you can’t rush into them.
The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.
Instead of fearing the unknown – all the bad that can happen – realize that good things can surprise you as well.
I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he’s done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
It’s not a problem to be great and do good things.
Animals. They’re nice, aren’t they? They’re good things, animals.
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what’s going on in the external world. It’s not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.
My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.
Good things will come from self-expression.
I think it’s in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we’re actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.
I eventually realized that good things wouldn’t happen to me if I didn’t make the right choices.
It’s all about always putting in that time and that work and also, separating yourself for the better. Put yourself around good things, better people, and things like that.
I’m looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I’ve heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I’m looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.
