Wrong Things Quotes - Page 11

• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Doe, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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• The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

  Sebastian Fitzek

  Mean, Sometimes, Ends

  Sebastian Fitzek (2011). “Splinter: A gripping, chilling psychological thriller”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation

  Lewis Black

  Dawn, Eating, Turns

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• The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

  Cassandra Danz

  Penalties

  Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

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• If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Thinking, Support You

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• I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Want

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• It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Risk, Management, Right Thing

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• Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Caring, Worry

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• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Father, Issues, Long

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• Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

  Jan Eliasson

  Passion, Happens, Things Happen

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• If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

  Larry Page

  Crazy, Ifs

  "Google’s Larry Page On Why Moon Shots Matter". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. January 17, 2013.

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• You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

  Melissa d'Arabian

  May, Succeed, Failing

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  I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, theres no right or wrong thing to do.

  Kim Kardashian

  Heart, Thinking, Intuition

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• I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Girl, Doe, Looks

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• I think the wrong things are kept private

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking

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• From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.

  Eric Bogosian

  Perspective, Guy, Becoming

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• We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Disillusioned, Values

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• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Stars, Book, Perfect

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• Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

  Drake

  Kings, Hip Hop, Legends

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• I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Loss, Average, Games

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• People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

  Heidi Klum

  People, Cookies, Hungry

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• The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Inspirational, Abuse, Violence

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan

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• We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we can see-as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful.

  Joan Bauer

  Monday, Powerful, Heart

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Squashed”, p.83, Penguin

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• You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

  Ronald Burkle

  Mean, Quality, Lists

  The Way We Live Now: 3-18-07: Questions For Ron Burkle; Friend Of Bill And Hill" by Deborah Solomon, query.nytimes.com. March 18, 2007.

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