Screws Quotes - Page 17

• I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Aviation, Predictions

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• It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, People

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

  Edwin Catmull

  Errors, Trying, Ifs

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

  Heather Donahue

  People, Feminist, Who Cares

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• Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  Randy Pausch

  Hurt, Sorry, Apology

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• You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.

  Jeffree Star

  True Friend, Screw Ups, Who Your Friends Are

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• I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."

  Connie Kalitta

  Guy, Screw Ups, Credit

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

  Dean Cain

  Stay Strong, Fun, Screw Ups

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

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• Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

  Vinod Khosla

  Screw Ups, Use, Investment

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• Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

  Michael O'Leary

  Connections, Alliances, Aviation

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• Screw it, just do it!

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Just Do It

  "Branson relishes risk in ‘fear driven’ H’wd". Interview with Marc Graser, variety.com. April 14, 2012.

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• You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Political, Done, Way

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• Screw the competition - focus on good customer service.

  Richard Branson

  Focus, Competition, Good Customer Service

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• I think that women have a construction of their sexuality put on them from a very young age that says exclusivity is necessary to remain valuable, that if a dude screws somebody else it means that he doesn't love you, that he doesn't care about you. You don't have primacy in his life.

  Guy Branum

  Love You, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City. The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.

  Adam Cole

  New York, Men, Cities

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

  Christopher Titus

  Leader, Crowds, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Screw Ups, Mark

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• The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

  Edwina Currie

  Giving, Advice, Pieces

  The Observer 'Sayings of the Week', 3 April (1988)

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• A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Screw Ups, Language, Mechanic

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• Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

  Stephanie Klein

  Perfect, Screw Ups, Be Kind

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• But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

  Grace Paley

  Screw Ups, Done, Whole

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• It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable.

  Ry Russo-Young

  Empathy, Needs, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Pay The Price, California

  "Titus / Three Strikes". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.

  Clayton Christensen

  Order, Games, Scary

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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