Destructive Quotes

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Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we… — BrenÃ© Brown
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad
Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory… — Ronald Reagan
Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean… — David Viscott
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's… — Lauren Mackler
Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular… — Yehuda Berg
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. — Stanley Milgram
Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is -… — Paul David Tripp
It becomes increasingly clear that we wonâ€™t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. — Pema Chodron
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise… — Erich Fromm
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. — John W. Gardner
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and… — Dick Gephardt
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people… — Newt Gingrich
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those… — Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. — Stephen Jay Gould
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm… — Alan Greenspan
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the… — Norman Cousins
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. — Salvador Dali
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet

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