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• Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Reality, Years

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• There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

  John Maeda

  Machines, Way, Computer

  "Watson Is No Match for Humanity" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, People, Priorities

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• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Chance, Language

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

  Scott Berkun

  Passion, Ideas, Worry

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• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accord

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Careers, Space

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.

  Willie Geist

  New York, Real, People

  Source: on.today.com

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• You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

  Mark Cuban

  Answers, Never Quit, Beaten

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.25, Diversion Books

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• I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Moral, Manners

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's all the hard parts - the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you.

  Ronda Rousey

  Pain, Loss, Sacrifice

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

  Mehmet Oz

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Might

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• The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

  Bill Murray

  Writing, Way, Serious

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Meditation, Waiting

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Order, People

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Always Trying, Assuming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Hero, Greek

  "Rick Riordan: 'Myths are universal and are totally ingrained in our culture'". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2012.

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• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, Knives

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  School, Stressed, Needs

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• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Sometimes

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

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• I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

  Sarah Palin

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• The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Keys, Being Positive

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Done, Feels

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• Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

  Mitch Albom

  Strong, Teaching, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.35, Broadway Books

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