Wrong Things Quotes - Page 10

• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Thinking

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Sometimes

  "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

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• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Strong, Power

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• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving, Wicked, Dominion

  "A Mercy". Book by Toni Morrison, November 11, 2008.

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• But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Discipline, Political, Relaxation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

  Po Bronson

  Inspirational, Life, Successful

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.131, Random House

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• There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Way, Right Way

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• some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

  Kate Klise

  Wish, Sometimes, Wishes Come True

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• Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

  Bob Marley

  Differences, America, England

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• When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

  Dean Koontz

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam

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• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  Lee Westwood

  Success, Golf, Games

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• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Gullible

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• I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Taylor Swift on Kanye West: 'It was important to write a song to him'" by James Dinh, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2010.

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• We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

  Herman Cain

  Dust, Pms, Example

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• A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

  Derrick Jensen

  Culture, Being Human, Produce

  Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

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• My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leadership, Succeed, Life Is

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• If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.

  Buck Brannaman

  Mistake, Simple, Rays

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• Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  School, Past, Government

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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• Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

  Ben Kingsley

  Truth, Reality, Sometimes

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• When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.

  Price Pritchett

  Simple, People, Justice

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• I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

  Sydney Brenner

  Creativity, Thinking, Saying The Wrong Thing

  Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

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• Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friendship, Mean, Kind

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• When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

  Mike Murdock

  People, Happenings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 10, 2013

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