Worst Things Quotes - Page 4

• What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Work, Missing, Want

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• The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Real, Mistake

  "Adjusting Though Reflex: Romancing Zen". Book by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76, 2010.

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• The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Being Lied, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Aug 15, 2012

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• The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

  Ben Huh

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

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• The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

  Sol Saks

  Writing, Worst, Best Things

  Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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• As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

  Carol Leifer

  Rejection, Environment, Worst

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  Salvador Dali

  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Work, People

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• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Like You, Possibility

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

  Sam Altman

  Baby, Trying, Conviction

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• And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me

  Drew Brees

  Funny, Example, Looks

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

  Peter Lynch

  Ignorance, Investing, Buying

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you.  The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

  Thom Browne

  Inspiration, Men, Ideas

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• You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

  Nellie Melba

  People, Worry, Worst

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• I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.

  Bobby Vee

  Losing, Lost, Worst

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• Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Guilt, Caught, Worst

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• The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

  Nick Clooney

  Struggle, Fighting, Worst

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• The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.

  Jerry Rice

  Worry, Focus, Balls

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• The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

  Paul Tournier

  Worst, Being Wrong

  Paul Tournier (1978). “The Violence Within”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The worst thing about religion was religious people.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Religious, People, Religion

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.214, Macmillan

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• The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Born, Worst

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• The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Worst, Treachery

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Happy Life, Order

  "GMA Hosts Thrilled By Pope's 'Fantastic' Call Not to Proselytize, Ignore Context" by Kyle Drennen, newsbusters.org. August 4, 2014.

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