Misdirected Quotes

28 Misdirected quotes by 25 unique authors

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. — Christopher Bond
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really… — Tracy Chapman
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing… — Kevin DeYoung
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath… — Lyman Abbott
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.... — Thomas A. Edison
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30… — Lawrence Hargrave
I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that we… — Toby Hemenway
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it… — Peter Drucker
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power… — Adrienne Rich
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you… — Jeffery Deaver
You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and… — Harrison Ford
When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but… — Christian D. Larson
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or… — Horace
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than… — Adrienne Rich
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. — Emma Goldman
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be. — Russell Means
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may… — George Muller
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force… — Morihei Ueshiba
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong… — Emma Goldman
When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere — Jodi Picoult
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just… — Jodi Picoult
The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected? — Cassandra Clare

Who Wrote These Misdirected Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Misdirected Quotes as follows: