Wrong Things Quotes - Page 5

• When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

  Dom Starsia

  Teaching, Kids, Player

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• From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

  John Woolman

  Men, Blessing, Faithful

  John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.72

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• The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

  Josh Linkner

  Creativity, Imagination, Worry

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• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

  Laverne Cox

  Hook, Bells, Stage

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• We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Pregnancy, Parent, Want

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• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  Adam McKay

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• 'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order ... This whole issue of should the Supreme Court be the final arbiter of what is or isn't constitutional, was settled at Nuremberg. People everywhere need to understand and need to follow that.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Government, Order

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• As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.

  Amor Towles

  Feel Better, Use, Next

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, Kuwait, Iraq

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.

  Elf Sternberg

  Mr Right, Toads, These Days

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• Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Interviews, Kim

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• Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Growth, Construction, Process

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• When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

  Danny Castillo

  Fall, Mma, Things In Life

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• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• What feels good is often the wrong thing to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Feel Good, Things To Do, Feels

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• You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Agency, Government

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• Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Doe, Helping, Management

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• Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

  Bobby Vinton

  Stupid, Things In Life, People

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• If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

  Jack Hanna

  Mean, Scared, Ifs

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• The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

  Maria Ressa

  Harder, Right Thing

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• Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Law, Criminals

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• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Careful, Hanging Out, Has Beens

  "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2008.

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• The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

  Tony Buzan

  Learning, Successful, Thinking

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Cancer, Team, Healing

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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