Counterproductive Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire…
— William J. Clinton
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The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is…
— Mike Coffman
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I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very…
— Adam Schiff
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Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic...is counterproductive!
— Jim Carrey
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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
— John Dewey
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to…
— Phil Jackson
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The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales…
— Naomi Wolf
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Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always…
— Dalai Lama
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Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
— Richard V. Allen
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I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find…
— Luis Miguel
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
— Tim Ferriss
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet…
— Stephen Covey
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But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology…
— James Davison Hunter
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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
— Dick Wolf
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I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that…
— Evelyn Fox Keller
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Vision without implementation is counterproductive.
— Douglas B. Reeves
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Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American
— Ronald Reagan
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Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a…
— Barack Obama
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It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.
— Carl Froch
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
— Jimmy Carter
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