Wrong Things Quotes - Page 7

• When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

  Christopher Pike

  Angry

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

  Heidi Klum

  People, Cookies, Hungry

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• I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

  Sydney Brenner

  Creativity, Thinking, Saying The Wrong Thing

  Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

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• When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.

  Price Pritchett

  Simple, People, Justice

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• Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

  Ben Kingsley

  Truth, Reality, Sometimes

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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• When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

  Mike Murdock

  People, Happenings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 10, 2013

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• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leadership, Succeed, Life Is

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• If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.

  Buck Brannaman

  Mistake, Simple, Rays

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• The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Given, Circumstances, Situation

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• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  Adam McKay

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• If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Dust, Practice, Soul

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• 'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order ... This whole issue of should the Supreme Court be the final arbiter of what is or isn't constitutional, was settled at Nuremberg. People everywhere need to understand and need to follow that.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Government, Order

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• We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Pregnancy, Parent, Want

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• When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

  Dom Starsia

  Teaching, Kids, Player

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• It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

  Hugh Nibley

  Thinking, Throwing

  "Approaching Zion".

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• The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

  Maria Ressa

  Harder, Right Thing

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

  Derrick Jensen

  Culture, Being Human, Produce

  Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

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• The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

  Sebastian Fitzek

  Mean, Sometimes, Ends

  Sebastian Fitzek (2011). “Splinter: A gripping, chilling psychological thriller”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation

  Lewis Black

  Dawn, Eating, Turns

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• The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

  Cassandra Danz

  Penalties

  Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

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• If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Thinking, Support You

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• I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Want

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