What Did I Do Wrong Quotes

• It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Failure, Ignorance, Character

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library

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• I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Depression, Lying, Stupid

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Thinking, Faults, Helping

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

  David Mamet

  Book, Thinking, People

  "The Edge". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Kids, Parent, Drug

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking, "what did I do wrong?" And the answer that the talk show host is giving them is convincing, in it's internal logic. It's saying, "what's wrong is the rich liberals own everything, run everything, they don't care about you; therefore, distrust them" and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Giving, Majority

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."

  David Fincher

  People, Trying, Different

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of my family, I go to church, I, you know, do everything 'right'. And I'm getting shafted. For the last thirty years, my income has stagnated, my working hours are going up, my benefits are going down. My wife has to work two [jobs] to, you know, put food on the table. The children, God, there's no care for the children, the schools are rotten, and so on. What did I do wrong? I did everything you're supposed to do, but something's going wrong to me.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Jobs, Children

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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