Screw Ups Quotes - Page 2

• Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dating, Long, Religion

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• I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

  Amy Ruley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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• You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Paradise, Matter

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  Randy Pausch

  Hurt, Sorry, Apology

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• Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Dark, Laughing

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• The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

  Seth Godin

  Way, Fool, Screws

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• It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

  Mila Kunis

  Teenager, Normal, World

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• Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

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• I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, People, Anecdotes

  "You have only so many jokes" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2002.

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• The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

  Edward Hoagland

  Ocean, Order, Years

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

  Greg Egan

  Suffering, Quality, Way

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• If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

  Richard Petty

  Two, People, Personality

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• C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

  Tom Christiansen

  Excess, Computer, Complicated

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• I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

  David Krumholtz

  Screws, I Can

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

  Jamie Oliver

  Pain, Class, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

  Anna Paquin

  Calendars, Done, Seven

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• I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

  Dean Cain

  Stay Strong, Fun, Cost

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.

  Jeffree Star

  True Friend, Who Your Friends Are, Screws

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• You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Risk, Guts, Screws

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• Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

  Mehmet Okur

  Basketball, Fighting, Games

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• The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Jesus, Fall

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