Wrong Thing Quotes

207 quotes by 185 authors

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it. — Joe Satriani
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for… — Karen Russell
It's like they say in the Internet world â€” if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the… — Bruce Feiler
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or… — Ernest Cline
Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. — Ashleigh Brilliant
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing… — Robert Sternberg
We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a… — John Lewis
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but… — Maynard James Keenan
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. Itâ€™s a form of theatrical empathy thatâ€™s socially and financially rewarded.… — Jack Donovan
Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing. — Paul David Tripp
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong… — Neil Gaiman
The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. — Sebastian Fitzek
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. — Laurence Gonzales
Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing. — Simon Sinek
The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death. — Cassandra Danz
If you give up on your principles I donâ€™t think thatâ€™s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isnâ€™t being practical...if you have the… — Ron Paul
I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing. — Ella Fitzgerald
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father… — Jeffrey Pfeffer

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