Top 1200 Being Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

Real style is never right or wrong. It's a matter of being yourself on purpose.

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

Be flexible. Don't be afraid to change your mind. If you're wrong, change your mind. If you go down the wrong path, and you're down 10-12%, it's better to sell down 15% versus 50%. If you have an idea that something is going to happen, you're predicting the future, and it's OK to be wrong. Where you can go wrong is by making a prediction that doesn't come true, and then sticking with it.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

Learning a game and doing something wrong is sometimes funnier than being good at it.

Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

There is nothing wrong being a house husband, and I do believe there is something right about it.

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.

There's nothing wrong with being comfortable in your own skin. If anything, it can be really beautiful.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.