Quotes About Damage

The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. For instance, many wreck their reputations merely by trying to defend them.

Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a lier. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals.

Where simplifications fail, causing the most damage, is when something nonlinear is simplified with the linear as a substitute. That is the most common Procrustean bed.

Had it been expected, it would not have caused the damage it did

Lo único que digo aquí es que no debemos estar ciegos a la antifragilidad natural de los sistemas ni a su capacidad para cuidarse solos, y que debemos reprimir la tendencia a dañarlos y fragilizarlos negándoles la ocasión de hacerlo.

Lembre-se também do que vimos no capítulo 2: a sobrecompensação, para funcionar, exige algum nível de dano e estressores como ferramentas de descoberta

an even smaller handful managed to foresee the full extent of the damage.

When we look at risks in Extremistan, we don't look at evidence (evidence comes too late), we look at potential damage: never has the world been more prone to more damage; never.

we can be drawn not to the most logical explanation of our behavior but to the most damaging, to that which puts us in the worst light morally.

It's an Event. Events bypass anger, straight to damage control.

Por suerte, el corazón se le había enfriado tanto que ya nada podía dañarlos.

One of the penalties of an ecological education [Leopold later wrote] is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell or make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Had she been an old woman who long ago in her youth sang beautifully, one might have said that she had learned to use the diminished nature of her voice to maximum effect, that it was a lesson in how to live with damage, how to make peace with it and use it for what it can do. But she was not an old woman.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words.

Ras is a big fan of Noam Chomsky; calling it the Propaganda Ministry keeps things honest, he says. Like having a Ministry of War rather than a Department of Defense, or Counting Other People's Murdered Children instead of talking about Collateral Damage.

RA is the use of relationships to hurt another, a way of verbal violence in which words rather than fists inflict damage.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect

The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

So if the wall's cracked or you've got leaky faucets, or you've got mold issues, or some sort of damage to your home, selling a home that's got that kind of distress to it is the biggest mistake you will make, because immediately people who are fearful will walk away.

the passing decades have taught me that political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the market elites could ever get away with doing.

On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.