Damage Control Quotes

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Life, Healing, Mean

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• In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Reality, People

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Teaching, Fire, House

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• It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Hate, People, May

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• I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Believe, Enough Time, Monitoring

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

  Megan Fox

  Call Me, Bases, Publicists

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• What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.

  Peter Breggin

  Years, Hypocrisy, Hopeful

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• When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

  Terry Southern

  Christian, Magic, Made

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• I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  People, Intellectual, Sexuality

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• Ann Coulter is, at this point, a known quantity (especially after the raghead remarks last year), and she delivered what they knew she would deliver. Where were the complaints in advance of her appearance? There were none that I am aware of, and this is just damage control. An open letter isn't going to solve the real problem with the conservative movement. And hell, the authors can't even write this letter without sniping at liberal websites. Ann Coulter is not the problem - she is a symptom of the problem.

  John Cole

  Real, Writing, Years

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