Be Good Quotes

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.

First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that's the good news. Check out the ratings.

I call it extreme vetting right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough, and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but half his job is putting out lies by the press.

Don't forget, a lot of people want that to happen because they make a lot of money by taking money out of this country. Those deals [like NAFTA] are very good for a lot of people.

Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

I've always been lucky with blood pressure. I've always had very good blood pressure.

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.

Russia a very powerful nuclear country and so is America. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. The good news is it is failing, it won't be around too much longer.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

If we can have a good relationship with Russia and if Russia would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

I don't know that I'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

It's going to be good to be on his side for a change. I'll save a lot of energy since I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that.

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.