Mislead Quotes - Page 7

• I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

  Warren Buffett

  Couple, Mistake, Mean

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

  Marina Abramovic

  Documentation, Performances, Early Work

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Historical

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Thinking, Important

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half of the inmates are violent offenders. This system is about protecting the public from violent crime." This type of statement is highly misleading.

  Michelle Alexander

  Trying, Looks, Half

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Korea, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

  Akbar Ganji

  Clever, Expectations, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Training, Opinion

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.143, Createspace Independent Pub

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• I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Mislead Us, Suffering, Ethics

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

  Ben Katchor

  Good Luck, Knowing, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

  Gus Van Sant

  Football, Games, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

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• It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

  Igor Babailov

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Differences, People

  "Classroom Without Walls". Explorations Magazine, Volume 7, 1957; reprinted in "Explorations in Communication" edited by E. Carpenter and M. McLuhan, 1960, and in "McLuhan: Hot and Cool" edited by Gerald Emanuel Stearn, 1967.

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• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  George Washington

  Men, May, Coquette

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Views, Empty Vessels, Information

  "Holistic Darwinism" by Peter Corning, (p. 364), 2010.

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• Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Writing, Skills, Trying

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• Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, People, Music Is

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• I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.

  Thom Andersen

  Teaching, Writing, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wall, Tools, Calling

  "Why the Internet is a great tool for totalitarians" by Evgeny Morozov, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

  Nicholson Baker

  Believe, Names, Self

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Average, Want, Habit

  Notes on Nursing Chapter XIII

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• Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Believe, Dark

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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