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• The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.

  Franziska van Almsick

  Truth, Thinking, Self

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• A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

  Joseph Pilates

  Movement, Pilates, Hours

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

  Steve Almond

  Grief, Rage, Form

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books

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• Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters — preferably both — and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

  Mark Waid

  Single Mom, Moving, Character

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• Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Smart, Cards, Credit

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2006). “Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Data, Giving

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• Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

  Dick Guindon

  Nature, Writing, Thinking

  "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses" by Leslie Lamport, www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

  Herman Kahn

  Ignorance, Emotional, Thinking

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Sky

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Hope

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

  David Foster

  Team, Boys, Ideas

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• I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.

  John Medina

  Air Guitar, Order, Skills

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

  P. C. Cast

  War, Vocabulary, Evil

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• Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

  David Nicholls

  Space, Lenses, Fifty

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

  Susan Branch

  Lakes, Views, Wind

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• We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

  Greg Behrendt

  Mean, People, Promise

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. It drives down the street in a fast-moving car and thinks its at the store, going over a grocery list. Then it wonders why accidents occur.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Moving, Thinking, Reality

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• Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Thinking, Arrogance

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• Spring slattern of seasons
  you have soggy legs
  and a muddy petticoat
  drowsy
  
  is your hair your
  eyes are sticky with
  dream and you have a sloppy body from
  
  being brought to bed of crocuses
  when you sing in your whisky voice
  the grass rises on the head of the earth
  and all the trees are put on edge
  
  spring
  of the excellent jostle of
  thy hips
  and the superior

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Spring, Eye

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Winning, Order

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• You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

  Ilona Andrews

  Looks, Use, Said

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.199, Penguin

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• If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

  Carl Sagan

  Biblical, Design, Competition

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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