Worst Quotes - Page 34

• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Sky, Looks

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• For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

  Matt Kenseth

  Dream, Winning, Firsts

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• The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

  Charles Duhigg

  Agency, Order, People

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Eye, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• The worst decision is indecision.

  Ryan Harwood

  Decision, Indecision

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• The worst is likely to be behind us.

  Henry Paulson

  Behinds

  "Paulson: The Worst Is Behind Us", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2008.

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• As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Race, People, Mind

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

  Maureen Dowd

  Men, Sin, Pins

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin

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• Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Government, Vision

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• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lying, Mean, Hiding

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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  Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

  Meek Mill

  Sometimes, Worst Day

  Song: Heaven Or Hell, Album: Dreamchasers 3, 2013

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• If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

  Seth Godin

  Way, Willing, Ifs

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• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Waiting, Conditions

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Tyrants

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.41, Knopf

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• I have seen flowers come in stony places
  And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
  And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
  So I trust, too.

  John Masefield

  Horse, Flower, Men

  John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

  Isocrates

  Heart, Honor, Done

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

  Douglas Coupland

  Boots, Sun, Plastic

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

  Douglas Coupland

  Erase

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

  Barry Diller

  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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