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  • If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

    "Google’s Larry Page On Why Moon Shots Matter". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. January 17, 2013.
  • Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from the days of Adam until today, you will find the love of wrong things. And at the heart of joy, you will find the love of good things."And the greatest of all good things is God.

    Heart   Joy   Today  
  • I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

    Interview with Stella Papamichael, www.bbc.co.uk. June 16, 2003.
  • The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

  • I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

    Guitar World, May 2000.
  • 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 of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

    Father   Issues   Long  
  • Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

    Past   Motive   Prove  
    Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.153, Dell
  • If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

    "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.
  • I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.

  • Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

    Dad   Wish   Said  
    Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.120, St. Martin's Press
  • It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

  • I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

    1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.
  • What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

    Morning   Wake Up   Done  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

    Thinking   Years   Adults  
  • The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

    "I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance".
  • I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

    Loss   Average   Games  
  • One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.

  • Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

    News   Wrong Things   Ifs  
    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

    Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam
  • I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.994, Bantam
  • I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

    Done   Shame   Feels  
  • People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

    People   Cookies   Hungry  
  • We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

  • I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

    Source: collider.com
  • It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

  • I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, theres no right or wrong thing to do.

  • We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

  • Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

    Kids   Hip Hop   Drug  
    Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
  • Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

    Stars   Book   Perfect  
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