Sloppiness Quotes

• Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

  William P. Driscoll

  Aviation, Speed, Combat

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy

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• Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

  William Safire

  Ignorance, Thought Provoking, Empathy

  William Safire (1981). “On language”

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• Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

  Lisa Gardner

  Youth, No Excuses, Excuse

  Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.29, Bantam

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• There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

  Laozi

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe. That way they come to expect fumbling and clumsiness and they say, "Oh, it must be a charming part of his personality."

  Nick Offerman

  Keys, Personality, Clumsiness

  "Interview: Nick Offerman on his ‘Simpsons’ voice and TV life after ‘Parks and Recreation’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 3, 2014.

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• If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".

  Max Delbruck

  Principles, Nails, Littles

  Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

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• I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.

  Tom Ford

  Book, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  David O. Russell

  Teacher, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.

  Mary Timony

  Player, People, Musician

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• The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, People, Tools

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Cutting, Humanity

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• From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Creating, Cinema, Attention

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

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• I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fighting, Police, Style

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• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

  Andrew Marr

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

  Armistead Maupin

  Solitude, Reason, No Reason

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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