Quotes About Mismatch

Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?

If I'm out wide, and they put a linebacker on me, I think that's a mismatch every time, regardless of who is on me.

am the puzzle piece that you think will fit but doesn't. The color is a little off, the edges don't sit quite flush. You can't force it. Though you might try.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

WHAT NOW TOOK PLACE FLOWED from a mismatch of expectations between the dictator and the political nation

It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously . 'An old American institution of mismating.

We are bad lie detectors in those situations when the person we're judging is mismatched.

First there is default to truth, which gives the con artist a head start. But when you add mismatch to that, it's not hard to understand why Madoff fooled so many for so long.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom.

We often explain ADHD to children using a very simple analogy that certainly resonates with adults, too: A person with ADHD has the power of a Ferrari engine but with bicycle-strength brakes. It's the mismatch of engine power to braking capability that causes the problems. Strengthening one's brakes is the name of the game.

A person with ADHD has the power of a Ferrari engine but with bicycle-strength brakes. It's the mismatch of engine power to braking capability that causes the problems. Strengthening one's brakes is the name of the game.

A negative person gets merely the toxic people around oneself and so s/he is seen often with many; A positive guy gains only authentic buddy around oneself and so he is seen usually without any. No mismatch possible ever and this is the first and foremost LAW OF NATURE.

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I'm not.

I was not supposed to end up freezing my ass off in a remake of Harry Potter meets The Italian Job by way of Fargo.

the two dresses she'd brought with her in case of—well, just in case—stood in the corner of her closet like guests who have come to the wrong party and are backing out the door.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.

One of the worst things about people was how easily they didn't go together.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.