Disservice Quotes

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

  Betty Dodson

  Girlfriend, Men, Dating

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• Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

  Julie Burchill

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Thinking, Chocolate

  "Kanye West: 9 Outrageous Quotes From This Week's Radio Interviews " by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Have the right people in the right places, working together

  Roger Staubach

  People, Working Together, Regression

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• It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

  Linda D. Thompson

  Lonely, People, Pedestal

  Source: magazine.foxnews.com

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• I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

  Jack Kirby

  Done, Half, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Education, Creativity, Science

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• I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Organization, Rights, Views

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• I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

  LZ Granderson

  Children, Parent, Feelings

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.

  David F. Swensen

  Responsibility, Organization, Systematic

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• You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Chance, Impression, One Chance

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

  Dennis Miller

  Iraq, Would Be, Bags

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• Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Use, Pseudo, Brilliant

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 55e), 1980.

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• There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

  Ken Danby

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  "Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models". Interview with Jack Dickey, time.com. November 13, 2014.

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• We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms. It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Dog, Teenager, Government

  Washington Times, December 01, 1995.

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• What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

  Kurt Hahn

  Dream, Children, Memories

  "Kurt Hahn: A Life Span in Education and Politics". Book by Robert Birley, §1, p. 8, 1966.

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• What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.

  Randy Pausch

  Boys, Advice, Bars

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

  Janelle Monae

  Tiny, Bigs, Universe

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• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Odds, People, Example

  "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.

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• People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

  Dave Gibbons

  Book, Thinking, Illustration

  "Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. December 23, 2008.

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