Carelessness Quotes - Page 3

• Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Reality, Long, Nihilism

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.24, Crown Forum

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• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  Gene Kranz

  Should Have, Safety, Design

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupidity, Causes, Reputation

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• With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inquiry, Becoming, Cowardice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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• A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

  John Eldredge

  Suicide, Strong, Wine

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
  who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reading, Littles, Inattention

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Greed, Awareness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Different, World

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• ... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Shameless

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• Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Garden, Self

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• There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

  Assata Shakur

  Hurt, People, Sides

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• ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

  David Wong

  Wind, Forever, Life Is

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• I haven't been sorting through each and every aspect of this. Here's what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.' Mr. Wallace pressed further on the jeopardy angle, and Mr. Obama responded again: 'I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now what I've also said is that - and she has acknowledged - that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails...'"

  Barack Obama

  Believe, America, Email

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Long, People

  "Considerations on Representative Government". Book by John Stuart Mill (p. 6), 1861.

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• Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  People, One Day, May

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• I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Vision, Doubt

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• Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Ignorance, Civilization, World

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• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Ego

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Despair, Skins

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.49, 德威國際文化

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