Wrong Things Quotes - Page 4

• On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

  Alicia Witt

  Girlfriend, Character, Kissing

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

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

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• Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

  Joan Rivers

  Stay Strong, Upset, Enjoy

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• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

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• The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.109, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Doing The Right Thing, Taking Responsibility

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

  Alison Croggon

  Mistake, Mean, Evil

  "The Riddle". Book by Alison Croggon, November 1, 2004.

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• I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ideas, Space, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

  Jim Carrey

  Special, Littles, Vulnerable

  Interview with Stella Papamichael, www.bbc.co.uk. June 16, 2003.

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• The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Get Better, Efficiency, Efficient

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• When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

  Jonathan Raban

  Notebook, Memories, Home

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• If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

  Hazel Scott

  Moving, Program, Ifs

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• it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

  Carrie Underwood

  Moving, Love Is, Hands

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• I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

  Joe Satriani

  Done, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

  Guitar World, May 2000.

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Pain, Talking, Alaska

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• She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Pain

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Dust, Practice, Soul

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• If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

  Ed Stetzer

  Children, Church, Way

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• So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

  Daniel Keyes

  Knowing, Able, Despise

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Believe, Waiting

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• Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Practice, Perfect, Permanent

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

  Hugh Nibley

  Thinking, Throwing

  "Approaching Zion".

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• The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Given, Circumstances, Situation

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