A Quote by Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Bo Bennett

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Bo Bennett
American - Businessman
Born: February 16, 1972

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

Thomas Newman

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

James Cleverly

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

Michael Ian Black

People standing up and saying, 'This isn't right,' is certainly a quality I admire in specific circumstances. There are people who do that and have a different set of politics, and then I don't necessarily agree with what they're doing and why they're doing it. But the act in and of itself of saying something is wrong and standing up for what they think is right is something I generally admire.

Rory Kennedy

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Shannon Hale

When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really appreciate how right they were about so much.

Tom Daley

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Peter Drucker

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you're doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that and, "Well, I read Paul-Michel Foucault saying..." The world and the universe have a way of resolving themselves eloquently, I think, if you're doing the right things.

Fernando Mastrangelo

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Doing the right things is more important than doing things right.

Ko Wen-je

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Jason Kander

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was loved and followed by more people than any chemist of our time.

Wilder Dwight Bancroft

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

Stephen Covey

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