Messing Up Quotes

• I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Children, Writing, Typewriters

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• Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

  Wayne Dyer

  Failure, Memorable, Way

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• Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Voice, Guilt, Friendly

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself.

  Jaime Murray

  Mistake, Mean, Creative

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Shine On, Shoes

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• I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Mean, Drawing, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hard Work, Work Harder, Harder

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Giving Up, Lying, Generosity

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Sleep, Thinking

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• I don't know what's wrong with it: if you commit a crime, you've overstayed our welcome. If I have guests in my house and if they start messing up my kitchen or start getting a fire in any sleeping room I would send them away.

  Geert Wilders

  Sleep, Fire, House

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Past, Grandpa

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Waiting, Brain

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• i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Son, Past

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• I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Running, Song, Rooms

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up such an important character.

  Steven Yeun

  Character, Guy, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

  Hannibal Buress

  Confidence, Baby, Art

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• Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Ocean, Men, Animal

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

  Frank Pittman

  Taken, Exercise, Men

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• I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

  Mick Jagger

  Air, Creative, Drug

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

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• You're messing up my highlights.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Highlights

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• I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was. "I don't deserve that much regard." He reached out and tipped my chin up. "You do, Georgina. And if you don't believe me now, then strive to be. Live you life. Be kind. Love those you know. Love those you don't know. be worthy of your soul." A tear escaped, rolling down my cheek and probably messing up my mortal mascara. "Thank you, Carter. Thank you for everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Believe, Soul

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• When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Soulmate

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

  John Scofield

  Guitar, Want, Vocalist

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