Quotes on Good

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Donors do not reward good intentions.

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.