Make Something Right Quotes

#1. You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

Roseanne Barr

#2. You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

Chris Howard

#4. What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

Glenn Beck

#5. Apologize!
That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

Sanhita Baruah

#6. It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period.

Christine Lahti

#7. We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.

Colin Trevorrow

#8. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Grenville Kleiser

#9. If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to make it right, then I pretty much will let that go. You don't forget about it, but just seeing that the guy makes an effort the next week means a lot.

Tony Stewart

#10. I always kind of wanted to be on 'CSI.' I'm kind of addicted to that show right now. I've never gotten to die in something, and I know that's a little gruesome, but I just think it would be really fun - I'd make it as dramatic as possible.

Ashley Leggat

#11. Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Jason Fried

#12. There was something between me and the world right then. I saw it like a big sheet of glass, too thick to break through. I could make new friends, but they could never know me.

Ava Dellaira

#13. Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

Bob Dylan

#14. If something's wrong with my body, I make sure to address it right away and not try to let it linger because it creates a bigger problem. You just have to understand your body, and when your body tells you something you just have to react.

Champ Bailey

#15. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris

D.G. Novak

#16. If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

Kim Dotcom

#17. Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.

Geoff Thompson

#18. We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Jodi Picoult

#19. Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Would you make a right just up ahead?" he asked.
"And then?"
"I'll show you something."
"More mysteries."
"There's nothing mysterious about it."
"You're the mystery."
He smiled. "Me?

Kai Meyer

#21. No matter how much you tried to make something happen, you will not be able to until the time is right.

Preeti Shenoy

#22. I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

Laura Anne Gilman

#23. The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Larry Page

#24. Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us ...

Sting

#25. Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you.

Melissa Pearl

#26. Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel good and ... I'm okay with that. My fear is that my anger will one day make me so damned successful that I'll actually be happy. And then I'll just stop.

Christopher Titus

#27. You can make your point all day long, and you can even be right about your point, but if you stop listening, if you stop really hearing and seeing that other person, something fundamental will be lost.

Shauna Niequist

#28. I wished upon every damned star in the sky for a second chance.
For something I could do to truly make it right when I'd done her so fucking wrong.
To be good enough for this girl who was so obviously created for me.

A.L. Jackson

#29. Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.

Diplo

#30. I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way ... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

Alice Lowe

#31. The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another ... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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Leonard Bernstein

#32. Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

David E. Kelley

#34. What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

Grant Heslov

#35. There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.

Stephen Malkmus

#36. When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

Beth Johnson

#37. It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so good, only because I'm experimenting and it just doesn't work out right. It's always a learning experience.

Thu Tran

#38. I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

Ricky Gervais

#39. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.

James Redfield

#40. I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.

Denis Villeneuve

#41. I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

Maurice Sendak

#42. I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

Lennon Parham

#43. I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#44. Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Carl Hiaasen

#45. He was giving me the same look I got Wednesday night right before he kissed me, and I knew I hadn't imagined anything. It was anger and desire mixed together to make something hot enough for my knees to go weak.

Penelope Douglas

#46. When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

Matthew McConaughey

#47. Just because a person is obsessed with the idea of something, doesn't make it right or even good for them.

Elle Casey

#48. If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of.

Helen McCrory

#49. We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

Milton Friedman

#50. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.

Ellen Wittlinger

#51. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#52. Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different.

Deborah Reed

#53. When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

Archie Griffin

#54. Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Chris Rock

#55. The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional.

Chris Edelson

#56. I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

Larenz Tate

#57. In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

Beck

#58. There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her.

Susan Wiggs

#59. I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#60. Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Bruce Springsteen

#61. If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

Debra Wilson

#62. I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.

Hafez

#63. Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

Alexa Von Tobel

#64. When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.

C.M. Stunich

#65. I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

Pierre Omidyar

#66. I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#67. I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

Danielle Steel

#68. Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Mark Helprin

#69. I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

Laurel Nakadate

#70. If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

Dick Couch

#71. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Anna Kendrick

#72. You were upset. I hurt you. Something must have happened to make you stay away from me. Is that right?" His nose was pressed under my ear and I fought back another round of tears because he just didn't fully grasp it. He could have been repeating Sheila's words for all I knew.
"You're leaving.

Amber L. Johnson

#73. I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

James Frey

#74. I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.

Jason Collins

#75. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

Manfred Mann

#76. Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning!

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

Mark Zuckerberg

#78. It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. "I need you to be sensible, Tom." But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.

Melina Marchetta

#79. I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

Sandra Bullock

#80. He remained silent, and she gentled her voice. I never planned for this. I never planned to make this a real marriage. But I love you, Nick. I've just been waiting for the right time to tell you. And I'm sorry I sprung it on you like this, but I didn't want to wait. Please say something. Anything.

Jennifer Probst

#81. If people make fun fun of you, you must be doing something right

Evanescence

#82. When we get home, I'll make you some soup or something."
"God. Don't be nice."
"All right." Jeff spoke softly into the darkness. "When we get home, I'll make some soup, and when you're not looking, I'll spit in it.

Z.A. Maxfield

#83. It's probably the most unpopular policy I'm responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don't like.

David Cameron

#84. I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

Nicolas Cage

#85. Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.

Tom Douglas

#86. The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.

Leila Janah

#87. It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.

Dido Armstrong

#88. I think believing in something is what matters most.
Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that by
doing the right thing you can make some difference
to another human being or an entire generation.

Rachel C. Weingarten

#89. Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do.

Drake

#90. When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

David Lynch

#91. I have the liberal dictionary right here ... let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'

Jon Stewart

#92. And I guess that's when I decided being good at something didn't mean you had to do it. Just 'cause something's easy doesn't make it right.

Julie Murphy

#93. Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

#94. My day-to-day wardrobe, I do mix it up. I'll wear something from Target along with something by YSL. It's about finding the right items that make you happy.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#95. Then if you want something and it's a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don't let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say 'bout you you'll never get anywhere, 'cause there's a lotta folks don't want you to make it.

Mildred D. Taylor

#96. Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

Alan Keyes

#97. When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.

Chelsea Krost

#98. I challenge you to make up your mind right now to do something great for God.

Joyce Meyer

#99. I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

Tim Hardaway

#100. Your goal should be something that feels really right, not forced. Make sure your goal resonates with what's true for you.

Jude Bijou