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Quotes About Unintentional

They are funny, too. And not always intentionally, either, which as far as I am concerned is the very best kind of funny.
~ Michael Booth
You can hurt someone and not even know it.
~ Bob Dylan
The sorting we do to ourselves and to one another is at best, unintentional and reflexive; at worst, it's stereotyping that dehumanizes. The paradox is that we all love the ready made filing system. It's so handy when we want to quickly characterize people. But, yet we resent it when we're the ones getting filed away.
~ Brene Brown
we're intentionally or unintentionally creating cultures that, instead of leveraging the unique gifts of the human heart like vulnerability, empathy, and emotional literacy, are trying to lock those gifts away.
~ Brene Brown
There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In most cases, it's slight and often unintentional gaps in integrity that hold leaders, their employees, and their companies back. Despite their potential, these leaders harm their employees and themselves.
~ Travis Bradberry
The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry. ... Unintentional beauty. Yes. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake.
~ Milan Kundera
Unintentional beauty. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake'. Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake - the final phase in the history of beauty.
~ Milan Kundera
The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.
~ Milan Kundera
Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design. But it's not our European beauty. It's an alien world.
~ Milan Kundera
Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.
~ Brian D. McLaren
I'm not intentionally dirty. It just kind of happens. It's not like I'm a shock comic who's looking to walk people.
~ Ari Shaffir
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
You know, I've never seen South Park, just by coincidence.
~ Kevin McDonald
we are likely to unwittingly simplify the problem because our minds routinely do so without our knowing it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It began as a mistake.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.
~ Charles Darwin
Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.
~ Julian Treasure
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
~ Stand Watie
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
~ Fred Wilson
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
~ Jerry Saltz
Sorry. Accident. Couldn't be helped.
~ Christopher Moore
I don't think she meant any harm." "I'm sure she didn't. But people do plenty of harm when they didn't mean any. It happens all the time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde