Wrong Things Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Risk, Management, Right Thing

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• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Father, Issues, Long

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• This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Doe, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  School, Past, Government

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• Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friendship, Mean, Kind

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• Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

  Jan Eliasson

  Passion, Happens, Things Happen

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• If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

  Larry Page

  Crazy, Ifs

  "Google’s Larry Page On Why Moon Shots Matter". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Stars, Book, Perfect

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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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• The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

  Josh Linkner

  Creativity, Imagination, Worry

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• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

  Laverne Cox

  Hook, Bells, Stage

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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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• From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

  John Woolman

  Men, Blessing, Faithful

  John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.72

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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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• Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Practice, Perfect, Permanent

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• I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Believe, Waiting

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