Top 1200 When Things Go Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

It's just so hard growing up: you go through things, especially acting - I go to a different set every couple of months, and you meet an entirely new group of people that are around you 24/7. It's not an easy situation to go into when you're a shy person.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.

Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

Saas-bahu will always work on television, one can never go wrong there.

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?

Love what you do and who you truly are. Be willing to die for it. If you are true to yourself, you can never go wrong

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.

One way a collaboration can go wrong is if your connection is inauthentic or overly prescriptive.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

You really can't go wrong. There's no bad New York pizza, as far as I know.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

I think public criticism of players can go one of two ways: either the players will want to raise a proverbial middle finger at their manager and prove them wrong, or the squad will go within themselves and performances will deteriorate.

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I wasn't frightened going to outer space. I'd been living this in my head for many, many years, so I sort of had played all of these scenarios of flying into space and seeing earth. I think I was very prepared for it. It was almost a completely joyful, very happy, very exciting experience, and I didn't have time or any desire to think about what things could go wrong.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

I want people who go through tough times, hard times, or didn't have everything right-things didn't fall in their lap or go in their favor-to know that they can still achieve their dream and go to the highest of the highs.

Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.

There's nothing wrong with my tits, but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces!

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

To go into a game wondering, 'What if I do this wrong?' is a terrible way to think. You just have to believe in what you can do.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

Anything can go wrong, but you can't think about it all the time. You have to enjoy every moment.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I learned anything can go wrong on tour, still, you have to put on the best show you can.

If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.

My thing was, if somebody talks about you this and that, you got to go prove them wrong.

The cool thing about 'Transparent' is that the show is funny but not like a sitcom is funny. It all comes down to the writing... The writers on that show are so good that you don't have to worry about anything. There are so many things that can go wrong making a TV show or a movie, but if the writing's good, that's, like, 95 percent of it.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.

Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless life is short if it lasts a century. There are greater and better things in us all, if we would find them out. There will always be in this world – wrongs. No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever.

My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.