Wrong Things Quotes - Page 11

• I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

  Paula Broadwell

  Done, Innocent, Righteous

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

  Muhammad Ali

  News, Ifs

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

  Les Parrott

  Betrayal, Backstabbers, Wrong Person

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Agony, People, Effort

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• It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Scams, Punters

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• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  Rachel Cohn

  Believe, Reading, Meaning Well

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, People, One Day

  "Dr. Phil: Oprah Is 'The Gold Standard In TV'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.

  Joseph Prince

  Godly, Men, Secret

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• The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

  Vinod Khosla

  World, Biofuels, Hung

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• If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

  Maya Angelou

  Common Sense, Be Kind, Fool

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• There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

  Peter Drucker

  Wells

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• The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

  Tony Buzan

  Successful, Effort, Unnecessary

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• I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Drug, Wow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, Cutting, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.

  David Alan Basche

  Nuts, Land, Tvs

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• All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

  George Carlin

  Long, People, Drug

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• Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

  Kevin Gates

  Detours, Poverty, Environment

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• Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Errors, Plans

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• Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Emotional, Games, Feel Good

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• Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

  Kathy Sierra

  Easy, Hard, Right Thing

  Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates (2015). “Badass: Making Users Awesome”, p.232, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

  William McDonough

  Business, Mean, Effectiveness

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

  Joshua Harris

  Wrong Time, Right Thing

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.80, Multnomah

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• I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Moral, Manners

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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