Wrong Direction Quotes - Page 2

• It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, War, Two

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• To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

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• The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

  George Orwell

  History, Battle, Cavalry

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

  Hugh Shelton

  Firefighter, Fleeing, Knows

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• Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

  Greg Laurie

  Steps, Crosses

  Greg Laurie (2010). “Because...”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, Thinking, People

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• From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

  Bode Miller

  Racing, Gone, Skis

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• To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

  Rob Bell

  Breathing, Grace, Doctrine

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• Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.

  Tom Rath

  People, Cubicles, Talent

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• Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

  Rami Malek

  Decision, Actors, Film

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

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• According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Moving, Taken, Writing

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• Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Incentives, Bills

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• According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Thinking, News

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• I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

  Dennis Muren

  Done, Enough, Ifs

  "IGN Interviews ILM's Dennis Muren". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .

  Charles Tomlinson

  Country, Moving, Style

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• The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

  Bob Sorge

  Lord, Brake

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• Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

  Zedd

  Being Yourself, Believe, People

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• Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

  Sean Paul

  Thinking, Negative, Steps

  "13 Questions With Sean Paul". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Agriculture

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• The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Skeletons, Waiting, Dying

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war.

  Vera Nazarian

  Country, War, Ocean

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• Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.270, W. W. Norton & Company

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