Wrong Direction Quotes - Page 3

• A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Business, Moving, Steps

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.84, Penguin

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• We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

  Joshua Harris

  Practice, Want, Path

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.40, Multnomah

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• You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Memories, Reading

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• People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

  J.R. Ward

  Squares, People, Fit

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.274, Penguin

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• Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

  Simone Weil

  Distance, Sin

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.41, Routledge

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• It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Together

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.192, Random House

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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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• The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Space, Islands, Religion

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• God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

  Sri Chinmoy

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

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• It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Loss, Energy

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, White, Racism

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• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mistake, Ideas, Mind

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• Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Moving, Opportunity

  "The Wolf Blitzer Reports Show", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2004.

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• The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Real, Warrior

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• There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

  Garet Garrett

  Song, Night, Thinking

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction

  Amber Tamblyn

  Truth, Thinking, People

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• If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Starting Out, Wonder

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever asked their sons where they have been going, who they have been meeting? Rapists are somebody's sons as well! Parents must take the responsibility to ensure that their sons don't go the wrong direction.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Daughter, Powerful

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• I also see an undercurrent - and perhaps the Indigo Children are another aspect of this â€" that's moving in the right direction that I thought was really predominant during the last 35 years since I started Noetics. So we do see quite a few people bucking the tides. At the moment, however, the political system, in my opinion, is going in the wrong direction.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Children, Moving, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

  T.C. Boyle

  Night, Dope, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

  John Mellencamp

  Internet

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• We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

  Thomas Friedman

  Home, Kids, Thinking

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• A lot of people get a misconception
  And start drifting in the wrong direction
  Miss Goody Two Shoes see you later
  I ain't got time and you ain't nuthin but a playa hater.

  Rappin' 4-Tay

  Shoes, Two, People

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