Erratic Quotes

• Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 21, 2017

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• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  John Updike

  Leadership, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “The Coup: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

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• My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

  Jamie Oliver

  Summer, Memories, Dad

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

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• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Light, Groups

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.143

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• Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Father, Son, Bentley

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• There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

  Warren E. Burger

  Equality, Racism, Majority

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• God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

  John Cleese

  Powerful, Father, Treated

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• The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

  James Joyce

  Genius, Originality, Incompatibility

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Art, Editing

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

  Lauren Oliver

  Animal, Unhappy, Instinct

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

  Colin Hay

  Careers, Minutes, Very Famous

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• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

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• If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Funny, Fickle, Roommate

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• Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

  Bel Kaufman

  Time, Collapse, Accordions

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Mean, Emotional

  "Presidential Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Oval Office". Book by John Boertlein, September 29, 2010.

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• What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Ideas, Oneness

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• I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

  Vivien Leigh

  School, France, Helping

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• [Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.

  David Krieger

  Presidential, Personality, Arrogance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Done, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

  Aphex Twin

  Track, Switching, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Pieces, Rotten

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• There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

  John Calvin

  Secret, Way, Action

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  Ella Leya

  Profound, Vices, Desert

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