What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of integrity, suggesting that even if we fail in other aspects, doing what is right is paramount.
Robin Williams' quote highlights the idea that amidst life's mistakes and failures, the ultimate measure of success is behaving ethically and making the right choices. It serves as a reminder that, no matter the circumstances or outcomes in other areas, maintaining a moral compass is what truly defines our character.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational speech about ethical business practices.
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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