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Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

He's a person who did not put the appearance of ethics above all else. That is not the way the government should function. These are the kind of things that make the general public distrust government.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

I don't think there is any question but that the indictment of Tom Delay gives another boost to the Democrats in terms of their argument that the GOP leadership doesn't pay attention to ethics requirements.

I do tend to gravitate toward what guiding light we have. . . . If I read something that's got those ethics in it, then I go towards it. We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Character is ethics in action.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

The truth is, the Senate Ethics Committee operates effectively and in a bipartisan fashion.

These are not friends. These are people who have business with the government. Governor Taft has talked about the principles of ethics in government, but it's unfortunate he chooses not to live by them.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint.

The House Ethics Committee doesn't look at anything.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

The excellent research carried out by Hwang and his team must continue, but in a way that considers the ethics in an appropriate way,

The Ethics Committee has been inoperative for essentially all of this Congress and shows no signs of addressing numerous matters that have been and are before the committee.

The Ethics Board believes that statutes should prohibit this activity. In fact, the Ethics Board has previously endorsed legislation to that effect.

The equipment cost is 90 percent. That gives you an idea of how much Audio Ethics (the contractor) has helped us.

Agents have to be very, very careful. If I have a buyer client and I'm showing them houses that I would get extra money for, they could question that because it is a conflict of interest. There's a potential code of ethics problem and a potential disclosure problem with your clients if you don't do it correctly.

The Forum for Corporate Directors was founded in 1991 specifically to promote the highest standards of corporate ethics and best governance practices for board of directors of both public and privately held corporations and institutions, and this annual dinner program was created in the early 1990s to honor the best of the best among Orange County's outstanding community of corporate directors.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

The Conservatives raised the bar on ethics and accountability very high, and I think people are waiting to see them deliver on that.

I'd rather be right than President.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Ethics is for people with full bellies.