Wrong Things Quotes - Page 13

• Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Years, Adults

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• You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

  Sam Altman

  Care, Want, Hard

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• A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

  Curtis Jackson

  Talking, Listening, Chance

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• We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

  Stephen Malkmus

  Singing, Notes, Unafraid

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Bella: How could I live with myself when it’s my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for me – Jasper: Bella, Bella, stop. You’re worrying all the wrong things, Bella. Trust me on this – none of us are in jeopardy… Our family is strong. Our only fear is losing you. Bella: But why should you – Alice: It’s been almost a century that Edward’s been alone. Now he’s found you. You can’t see the changes that we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Eye, Thinking

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• She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Real, Mean, Talent

  "Fifteen". Book by Beverly Cleary, September 1, 1956.

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• Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

  Marion Milner

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.154, Taylor & Francis

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• I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Taken, Thinking, Listening

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• One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, Way

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• We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

  Mary Calderone

  Sex, Reason, Stills

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• Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dad, Wish, Said

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.120, St. Martin's Press

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• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  Nina Berberova

  Time, Years, Three

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• No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Work, Men, Doe

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• Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

  Paul David Tripp

  Sin, Serving

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• Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Satan, Possibility

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.542, Discovery House

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Animal, Play

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• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

  John Lewis

  Country, Religious, Freedom

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• And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

  Robert Sternberg

  Long, Population, Looks

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• There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

  Eric Butterworth

  Faith, Law, Done

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• The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Confused, Waste

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Memorable, Omission

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• Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Selfish, Party, Men

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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