Sabotage Quotes - Page 2

• Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, World, Things To Do

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• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Self, Form

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2012

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• Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

  George Monbiot

  Real, Agreement, Environmental

  "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling". www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.

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• The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

  Zach Anner

  Ems, Disability, Demon

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  Connie Zweig

  Character, Past, Emotional

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• Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

  Francesca Marciano

  Emotional, Littles, Clear

  Francesca Marciano (2010). “Rules Of The Wild”, p.92, Random House

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• I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

  Corey Stoll

  Self, Actors, Imagine

  Source: deadline.com

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• No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

  Guy Finley

  Impossible, Conscious, Humans

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• I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

  Kit Williamson

  Fall, Thinking, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Self, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 25, 2013

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• These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I'm worth taking care of.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Couple, Believe, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Happiness, Destiny, People

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• The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.

  Cory Booker

  War, People, Community

  Source: hightimes.com

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• You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

  Athol Fugard

  Answers, Violence

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• The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.

  Paul Blobel

  Army, People, Agents

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 153, 1961.

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• We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.

  David Whyte

  Pain, Distance, Taken

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

  Mark Goulston

  Way, Mankind, Humans

  Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg (1996). “Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior”, p.177, Penguin

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• Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Definitions, Resistance

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.18, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Blow

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

  John le Carre

  Artist, Assassins, Smugglers

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• The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.

  Stanislaw Lem

  War, Understanding, Enemy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.59, HMH

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• It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.

  Steve Pavlina

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Self

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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