Damage Quotes - Page 16

• "Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.

  Bill Walsh

  Emotional, Effort, Tolls

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.188, Penguin

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• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  Gossip, World, Might

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• Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

  Sam Levenson

  Memories, Dangerous

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• When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rich, Results, Wealthy

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• When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

  James Cook

  Agriculture, Wildlife, Should

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• The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Selfish, War, Care

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• If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.

  H. A. Berlin

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Heather Berlin on the Link Between Genius and Disorder". bigthink.com.

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• Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Psych

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• The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

  Elliott Abrams

  Military, Blood, Economic Sanctions

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• It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, America, Parent

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• Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

  Bud Collins

  Two, Boxing, Tennis

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• Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Gun, Law, Long

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• I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Lovely, Suing

  Evelyn Waugh (1992). “The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Blow, Hurtful

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stupid, People, Atoms

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

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• No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Wine, Glasses

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• A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Teenager, Government, Law

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• I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

  Ben Howard

  Real, Thinking, Illegal

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• The unfortunate thing, and the tragedy of this show [Revenge], is in exploring the theme of revenge. Absolutely everyone can find peace, at some point or another, but the interesting thing is how you find it, the collateral damage along the way and all the trauma that she indirectly causes all these other people in her circle.

  Emily VanCamp

  Revenge, Unfortunate Things, Circles

  Source: collider.com

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• People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

  Robert Redford

  Sea, People, Dying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.

  Conor McGregor

  Stupid, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

  Nido R Qubein

  Hatred, Doe, Earth

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you.

  Robert Mitchum

  People, Can Do, Closest

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• The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'

  Paul Baran

  Believe, Men, Skills

  "The Commercial Tidal Wave" by Robert W. McChesney & John Bellamy Foster in "Monthly Review", March 2003.

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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