I always get nervous. It’s usually a good thing. I worry about the nights that I’m not nervous, actually.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don’t think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don’t label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.
Getting beaten is sometimes a good thing. If you’re a positive person, you can turn it around and make it into a good thing.
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, ‘It must be a good thing to fight for.’
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
It’s all good fun – television and movies and so on – but the good thing in theatre is there’s nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.
I think that’s a good thing to have a camaraderie aspect with the team.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can’t put a round peg in a square hole.
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.
I’ve always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we’re going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.
Basketball is such a good platform to be able to have a real impact on kids. We don’t have all the answers, but we can tell kids the importance of asking questions and working hard. Maybe they go to their teacher and ask questions because their favorite player told them it was a good thing to do.
The good thing about directing a screenplay that you’ve written is that you see the film in your head as you’re writing it and then you see those decisions through to the end.
In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can’t even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.
It’s a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.
Sacchi was a good coach. He wanted to play pressure football. The good thing was that he created a good group with lots of discipline. Working together was the key. You had to do your work to help the team and that was all important.
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.
If people don’t get paid for their inventions, that’s not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren’t in a position to take them to the next level. If you don’t enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
I’m free to see things objectively because I don’t consider myself American, and I don’t consider myself British or Indian. I’m kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it’s been a good thing for me. It’s enabled me to do what I do on ‘The Daily Show.’
What you’re going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that’s what’s on your plate. And I think that’s a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person – the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
I was sent to boarding school – a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn’t afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
If there is only one culture all over the world, that’s not a good thing.
A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.
Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can’t wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head – I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that’s a good thing.
It’s a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He’s prepared to kill off the main guys. You don’t get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.
Let’s remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That’s a good thing.
Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.
Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.
I haven’t ever had so many women come up to me and tell me that I made them cry. And they’re smiling about it, which is kind of an odd thing. Usually it’s not a good thing.
I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he’s very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don’t usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
It’s my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it’s a good thing to be chairman.
I think it’s a good thing that I eat well. Don’t get me wrong, I go for fish and chips sometimes or the odd kebab, but you need more healthy food than bad.
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I’ve been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
I definitely don’t subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph’s. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, ‘That’s a pretty good thing to do.’
Getting people health insurance is a good thing, and that’s what Tom Stemberg fought for.
When I’m drawing, I’m drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can’t draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I’m working. I draw according to the place.
I’m an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.
If I can give that back to one little girl, much less thousands, and if they start on this journey because they saw me do this, then I did a good thing with my career and my life.
There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it’s a good thing for cycling that it’s so accessible for spectators. That’s why it’s so popular – because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity – all the things you want. It’s a pretty good metaphor for life.
Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it’s a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music – because it is content that you can slice into songs – doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
I’ve never really had any beef with anybody yet, so I think that’s a good thing.
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it’s the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can’t really get bored with it. If you’re bored with writing, you’re bored with life.
Unproductive effort is never a good thing.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
