In The Wrong Quotes
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.
Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.
If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)
I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.
You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.
I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.
It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.
When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success
There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.