#lame

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#compliment #effective #lame #more #nothing

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. ↗

— Chris Ware

#bad #blames #cartoon #might #painting

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff. ↗

— Shane Warne

#blame #choices #couple #else #fault

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you. ↗

— Tom Watson

#behind #come #fight #fire #fires

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ↗

— Simone Weil

#blame #encourage #fear #kill #killers

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#capture #down #everybody #flames #gone

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#come #competing #defeat #experience #forces

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. ↗

— Prince William

#actions #blame #decision #i #i think