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Doing Right Quotes (page 12)

Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right? Wesley: No. Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it? Wesley: Yes. Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you. Wesley: Doesn't scare me. Weston: No? Wesley: No. Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it? Wesley: How? Weston: Because I... Sam Shepard
All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch. I can’t do anything," says Peeta, "unless you count baking bread." Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a knife,” says Haymitch. Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and arrow.” And you’re good?” asks Haymitch. I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim... Suzanne Collins
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right. Philip Pullman
Jane Austen quote: "I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what..."
I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right. Jane Austen
Warren Bennis quote: "Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing."
Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing. Warren Bennis
Peter Drucker quote: "Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing..."
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Peter Drucker
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be..."
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it. Sigrid Undset
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. Ursula K. Le Guin
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to... Derrick Jensen
Kelly Miller quote: "If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then..."
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right. Kelly Miller
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the... Oswald Chambers
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me. Harvey Fierstein
Paul Farmer quote: "The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right..."
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. Paul Farmer
Peter Drucker quote: "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the..."
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

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