- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
- First Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door.
- Date
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hope to catch the band on a good night and you hope that it sounds good when you hear the tapes back, and you hope that when you mix it you still have the feeling that you had when you were onstage, but it seems like it never quite works out that way!
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020