#wrong thing

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#doctor #i #information #just #know

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#occupy #occupying #place #protesters #protesting

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#because #busy #chasing #doing #even

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#factor #finding #general #hundreds #just

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#make #order #right #right thing #sense

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#just #people #report #right #right thing

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. ↗

— Tony Blair

#do the right thing #lose #right #right thing #sometimes

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choose #compelled #environment #feels #free

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#i #ironies #life #moment #right

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough