Quotes with wrong-doing

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1363.

  • Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Owen D. Young In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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  • Bruce Forsyth In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bob Diamond In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Delinsky In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Billy Corgan In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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