Misnomer Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system,…
— Thane Rosenbaum
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As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
— Leigh Steinberg
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Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While…
— Edward Hallowell
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Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
— Jacques Barzun
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Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
— Stephen Covey
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There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.
— Jen Hatmaker
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The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary…
— Greg Bear
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War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our…
— Edward Teller
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Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In…
— Errol Flynn
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism…
— Ronald Reagan
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Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.
— Kiersten White
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Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is…
— Walter Block
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Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don't know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality…
— Mohnish Pabrai
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I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for…
— Ronald Reagan
Who Wrote These Misnomer Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Misnomer Quotes as follows: