Top 75 Good Ones Quotes

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us – computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you’re gonna use on the album.

I don’t like music docs, usually. There’s nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can’t say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos – but I’ve allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I’ve been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

The one thing I’ve learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.

The good ones push their luck to the limit – like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

It’s really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Of course, getting to be No. 1 keeper in the world is a tough ask because there are loads of goalkeepers out there and some very good ones, too. But I always try to give my very best to reach that standard.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven’t.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned – both the good ones and the bad ones – that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

You’ve got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You’ve got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you’ve done your best, that’s all you can do.

I don’t like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: ‘Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.’

Corporations are like countries now, there’s a king, there are serfs, there’s a court, basically everything but moats. They’re feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

It’s important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you’re wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you’re not. Don’t get me wrong – I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I’m feeling insecure today, I’ll move on tomorrow. I’d tell girls to realise it’s OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.

People who aren’t as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, ‘Oh, ‘Buena Vista?’ Loved it.’ And I’ll say, ‘Well, how about any of my other recent records. I’ve been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?’ And they go, ‘Huh?’

Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind – the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.

I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is… ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones.

Basketball players, the good ones, are no one-shot specialisls. This is a game which puts a premium on your ability to hit that hoop consistently, and to excel in it you’ve got to have a variety of shots.

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

Of all my childhood memories, I don’t have any good ones.

I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.

We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There’s a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn’t or wouldn’t endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

When you look at the early-’30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies – the good ones, the ones done by the best directors – the acting is very, very natural.

We’re liberals, so quitting is not an option. We will push through the hard days so we can celebrate together on the good ones.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it’s about time they started making good ones.

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

I’ve basically seen opportunities as they come up and they’ve turned out to be really good ones.

Here’s what’s nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they’re not good ones. And then you’ll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you’ll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you’ll follow through and you’ll go, ‘You know what? It’s nice to be right.’

I think that the difference between ‘The Sopranos’ and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren’t about the writer himself.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I wanted to make ‘Nobody Knows,’ a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

I don’t want to become too self-conscious – it’s why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.

It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

I’m a big action junkie. I grew up on the ’80s action movies – the bad ones and the good ones.

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement – the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.

I don’t know if there’s anything sadder than an actor who hasn’t made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.

There’s only two kinds of actors – good ones and bad ones… and lucky ones and unlucky ones.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

I was in ‘Cliffhanger’ years ago, so I’m a massive fan of the big event movies – the good ones – but there’s a lot of crap that’s made in between the good ones. It’s just the superhuman films that I can’t get my head around. I guess if you’re a fan of them, then you love them.