Wrong Move Quotes

• We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.

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  Hideo Kojima

  Moving   Confusion   Effort  

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• Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?

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  Big Daddy Kane

  Dog   Rap   Moving  

  Song: Ain't No Half-Steppin'

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• The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we’re addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot.

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  Pema Chodron

  Moving   Mean   Reality  

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

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  Mary Blakely

  Children   Moving   Teaching  

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.

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  Ulrich Walter

  Baby   Zero   Moving  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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  Denis Waitley

  Success   Moving On   Letting Go  

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• There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

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  Tim Meadows

  Moving   Instinct   Stage  

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• I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

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  Aleksandar Hemon

  Moving   Numbers   Decision  

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.182, Macmillan

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