Damaging Quotes
183 quotes by 162 authors
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Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling…
— Erich Fromm
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You’re really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the…
— Brian Weiss
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If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought…
— Mathias Malzieu
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
— Stephen Fry
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She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it…
— Cassandra Clare
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A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must…
— Martha Stout
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She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it…
— Sarah MacLean
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be…
— Henry Cloud
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Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that…
— N. T. Wright
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Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and…
— Seymour Papert
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I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their…
— Seymour Papert
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I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out…
— Katie Couric
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to…
— Enric Sala
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The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police…
— Geoff Mulgan
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If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you…
— Heather Brooke
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the…
— Randy Schekman
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A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
— Grover Norquist
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