Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
J. C. Watts
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RUSSELL ACKOFF The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. HAROLD COFFIN We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many pe... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound. BETH GIBBONS The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are do... EMERIL LAGASSE When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi... IRWIN THOMAS I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you c... LARRY THE CABLE GUY Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only ... ADAM PASCAL I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN The right thing to do when a wrong decision has been made is to turn the wrong decision around by do... TARY C. Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. MICHAEL J. FOX I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great m... A.J. STYLES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that ... PAUL DANO When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ... JACK JONES I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe... BIZ STONE The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one whit... GAVIN O'CONNOR It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing. JIM DEMINT You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,... LEBRON JAMES What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what&... SELENA I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can. KOBE BRYANT When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need pe... BARRY SCHWARTZ Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. VICTOR HUGO I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do ... MIKE SINGLETARY I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is th... CHRIS CUOMO If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b... CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to... LAWRENCE KASDAN A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when ... DOROTHY HAMILL It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in... BRITTANY MURPHY What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. DANIEL SNYDER I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character... ALAN BALL The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. BRYCE COURTENAY The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right th... NORM COLEMAN There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathe... PAOLO SORRENTINO Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong de... MARK WAID Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk. DICK GREGORY God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broke... 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such enchanted musical instr... ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. ALAN WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet... ISAAC WATTS Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ISAAC WATTS I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. ISAAC WATTS The Lord builds up Jerusalem, And gathers nations to his Name: His mercy melts the stubborn so... ISAAC WATTS To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain p... ALAN WATTS Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, a... ISAAC WATTS INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. WATTS HUMPREY 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber aga... ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ISAAC WATTS We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptio... ALAN WATTS We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of fl... ALAN WATTS We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u... ALAN WATTS Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu... ALAN WATTS Maundy Thursday Jesus invites His saints To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit... ISAAC WATTS Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city... ISAAC WATTS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come! Let earth receive her ... ISAAC WATTS CHRISTMAS DAY The King of glory sends his Son, To make his entrance on this earth; Behold the midni... ISAAC WATTS Justice and Judgment are thy throne Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one... ISAAC WATTS PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred so... ISAAC WATTS Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm... ISAAC WATTS Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the ... ISAAC WATTS Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gi... ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ISAAC WATTS A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ISAAC WATTS How glad the heathens would have been,
That worship idols, wood and stone,
If they the book Go... ISAAC WATTS But Thy good word informs my soul
How I may climb to heaven. ISAAC WATTS Let not soft slumber close your eyes,
Before you've collected thrice
The train of action throu... ISAAC WATTS Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. ISAAC WATTS In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be past,
That I may give for every da... ISAAC WATTS How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun,
How lovely and joyful the course that he run!
... ISAAC WATTS But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never mad... ISAAC WATTS How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
Fro... ISAAC WATTS The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it ALAN WATTS Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropo... HEATHER WATTS I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo... CHARLIE WATTS The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin... ALAN WATTS Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ISAAC WATTS But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. ALAN WATTS In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit... ALAN WATTS You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce... ALAN WATTS But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. ALAN WATTS And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ALAN WATTS Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag... NAOMI WATTS The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ALAN WATTS Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ALAN WATTS You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. ALAN WATTS I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i... ALAN WATTS No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for... ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr... ALAN WATTS The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identica... ALAN WATTS But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,... ALAN WATTS To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,... ALAN WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enj... ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings from... ANDRE WATTS The last few years have been a bit of a struggle. I got over the brain thing and my hand has come ba... ANDRE WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at – that made an ongoing conce... ANDRE WATTS The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing. ANDRE WATTS When you went to hear one of these people, ... it was their conviction that got you. They were each ... ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can – it takes a certain amoun... ANDRE WATTS I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. HEATHER WATTS Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let ... HEATHER WATTS Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between ri... ALAN WATTS I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be care... REGGIE WATTS The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat. REGGIE WATTS With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our ti... HEATHER WATTS When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o... NAOMI WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita... ALAN WATTS