Wrong Things Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

  Daniel Keyes

  Knowing, Able, Despise

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Cancer, Team, Healing

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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• The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

  Tony Buzan

  Learning, Successful, Thinking

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• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Careful, Hanging Out, Has Beens

  "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2008.

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• Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Law, Criminals

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• Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Caring, Worry

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• If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

  Jack Hanna

  Mean, Scared, Ifs

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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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• Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

  Bobby Vinton

  Stupid, Things In Life, People

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• If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

  Ed Stetzer

  Children, Church, Way

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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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• Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  Dan Brown

  Hero, Interesting, Villain

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• Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Doe, Helping, Management

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• You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Agency, Government

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• When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

  Jayson Blair

  People, Stories, Want

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• When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

  Danny Castillo

  Fall, Mma, Things In Life

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• Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Thinking, Intelligence Services

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